Ruby Triathlon starts this week
The Ruby Triathlon starts this week! Rails World - Amsterdam, Netherlands, September 4–5The first conference is Rails World happening in Amsterdam on 4 and 5...
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Flaky Tests, Courtesy of AI
When AI is writing tests in agentic mode, it's crucial to monitor its output. Sometimes, it uses tricks to pass the tests or creates unnecessary...
Invisible work separates friction from flow.
No one will thank you for good error messages or default states, but they will feel it! The difference between friction and flow is invisible...
Remember to set the frequency for replication to Litestream!
Curious about how I ended up with an invoice nearing $100 for conducting over 20 million Class A operations on Cloudflare R2? I initiated several...
Two new Ruby podcasts from Rails Foundation and Ruby Central
In case you missed this in the last period, there are two new podcasts in #Ruby world: On Rails - a podcast produced by the...
Running all tests from the current branch
I enjoy creating small automations using Ruby and Bash. While it might be simpler to use Bash, I like #Ruby so much that I want...
The shortest pitch to business for using Ruby on Rails
I think the best short pitch to business why use Ruby on Rails is this one: “Engineering was no longer the bottleneck” Source
Don't let AIs rewrite your tests if once you agreed with them
Once you agreed to a set of tests: either written by you or written by AIs but guided by you, don't let the AIs to...
When using LLM to write tests you should remain in charge of choosing the test cases
When using LLMs to write tests, you should remain in control of choosing the test cases or at least review them. Here is an example...
A small tip for the about section of your own website
I am looking at various personal websites mostly focused on researching personal websites of technical people mostly programmers because I want to redo my own...
Ruby San Francisco Scene is heating up
San Francisco Ruby scene is heating up Already two events planned for this year: 1. SF Ruby AI Hackathon - 19 July - https://lu.ma/znhcct7v?tk=17VJ2z 2....
Reminder to update Ruby 3.2 and Rails 7.1.x
This is your reminder that if you run #Ruby 3.2, now would be a good time to start planning an update. It will be EOL...
Why choose Ruby on Rails - reliability and efficiency
Why choose #Ruby on #Rails? I read this article from Reinteractive: https://reinteractive.com/articles/rails-8-modern-web-framework “But let’s be honest, sometimes you just want a framework that’s reliable, efficient,...
We should refute old and false narratives about Ruby or Rails
I happen to agree a lot with Amanda Brooke Perino here That’s why I almost always comment on Hacker News or any forum where I...
Two YCombinator projects are using Rails and React
Work at a Startup and Bookface, two YCombinator projects are using Rails + React + PostgreSQL Source: 1. https://www.ycombinator.com/careers?ashby_jid=00c6950f-341f-4924-a456-ea32c9d5601d 2. https://www.ycombinator.com/careers?ashby_jid=ef00c8d1-76e7-4cc3-82fe-7cc3e4679652 Update: Here is a...
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Short Ruby Newsletter - Highlights from Edition 132
Short Ruby Newsletter - edition 132 highlightsThe one with several Ruby releases: 3.4.3, 3.5.0-preview1, and JRuby 10, where Marco Roth announces herb tools and Matz...
An example of an 1B$ exterior renovation business using Ruby on Rails
An example of an 1B$ exterior renovation business using #Ruby and Ruby on #Rails sharing why they think Ruby is a good choice for a...
Short Ruby Edition 129
Short Ruby Newsletter - edition 129 highlights📅 Events• African Ruby Community shared that Ruby Conf Africa opened its Call for Papers for this year event...
You have to remain the driver and solution architect
I used Claude Code to refactor a series of tests from Minitest::Mock to the Mocha library this early morning. The main reason is that I...
Short Ruby Newsletter - edition 127
Short Ruby Newsletter - edition highlightsThis edition was sponsored by Judoscale and was created with the help of Vladut Cosmin 🚀 Launches • Adam McCrea...