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...
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2025
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...
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...
About vibe coding
I am very close to putting this "vibe coding" phrase into ignore lists. But someone saying that Ruby is not fit for vibe coding made...
A possible advantage for Ruby for LLMs
An interesting point of view about the advantage #Ruby might have when considering AI "generating equivalent functionality in Ruby costs approximately one-third of what it...
Support tech creators
I'm aware that as developers—or as tech enthusiasts—we're picky about subscribing to newsletters. Here's the harsh reality: 1) Running a newsletter has some costs. 2)...
One great benefit of using Sorbet
One benefit of using Sorbet is that it can make VSCode and Neovim almost on par with RubyMine's excellent behavior of being able to go...
Trying claude code for the first time with Ruby on Rails
This morning I played a bit with Claude Code and tried it out on a piece of #Ruby that was written in a hurry for...
Code you can write in Ruby in 2025 😀
The following can be expressed in various ways, but isn't it amazing that we can write it like this 👉 Are you curious about what's...
Sleep can improve your productivity
We probably all know this, but let me remind you—and mostly myself—that getting a good night's sleep is one of the simplest ways to boost productivity....
When posting on Bluesky or Mastodon use hashtags
A gentle reminder: please use #Ruby or #Rails when posting about Ruby or Ruby on Rails on Bluesky and Mastodon. It helps with content discovery,...
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2024
How grape-entity works
Someone asked on Reddit a question like: > Can anyone provide me an informative article on how grape-entity works? I don't know or not able...
Consider carefully when deciding to create an array column in Rails
Think carefully about whether I truly need an array column in Rails or if it's more effective to create it as JSON from the start....
Installing Ruby 3.4.0 rc1 and playing with it
I just installed ruby 3.4.0.rc1 to test some things in a new Rails 8 app. But I am glad that I can do this with...
Twitter transitioned to Scala to continue writing beautiful code
I found this quote in this article about Twitter moving to Scala: > But he also prefers Scala because it's, well, beautiful. "It's a fuzzy...
Short Ruby Newsletter - Highlights from edition 117
🚀 Launches • Stanislav Katkov launched the website for poshtui.com • Lindsey Christensen launched the Hotwire Essentials • Sandi Metz announced a 40% discount for...