2026
Anthropic published a study called "How AI Impacts Skill Formation" exploring how AI assistance affects both productivity and learning when developers work with new concepts....
Every week I curate what the Ruby community shares online and publish it in Short Ruby Newsletter. In the last few months, I noticed a...
If you're writing API documentation, always specify units for duration parameters. Not just "timeout: 30" but "timeout: 30 seconds" or better yet name the parameter...
If you are doing some planning this week, consider adding checkpoints for upgrading your #Rails app Specifically, if you are still running Rails 7.2T.x Security...
Seems like Ruby is pretty well positioned as a language that is token-efficient when used with LLMs. Source "Which programming languages are most token-efficient?" by...
2025
I was reading this article: https://www.humanlayer.dev/blog/writing-a-good-claude-md and found there the following: Then I was curious to find out more about this system-reminder and to identify...
The Ruby namespace will be renamed to `Ruby::Box`. A merge request regarding this was integrated into Ruby's master branch a couple of days ago by...
Noel Rappin - Ruby And Its Neighbors: Smalltalk Noel Rappin continues his series of writing about Ruby and languages that inspire it (if you have...
I'm certain, although I haven't had the time to develop a proper data scraper to confirm, that Ruby articles are appearing more frequently on the...
1️⃣ Noel Rappin published an article about Ruby And Its Neighbors: Perl2️⃣ Sam Ruby published an article about Testing Frozen String Literals in Production There...
Amabile, Teresa M. “A Model of Creativity and Innovation in Organizations.” Research in Organizational Behavior 10, no. 10 (January 1, 1988): 123–67. https://ci.nii.ac.jp/naid/20000708825. Here is...
Ghostty introduced this section to their CONTRIBUTING.md file And I think this part here is a normal expectation for any AI code contributed to a...
I've been using git worktree for at least five years now. Here's how I set things up at work. Say I work on `short_ruby` project. ...
Why do I activate Vim in any code editor I work with? Imagine a list of emails in a Google Sheet in a single column,...
I launched a personal newsletter at newsletter.lucianghinda.com This morning, I sent my first email. Why start this newsletter? I had newsletters set up in multiple...
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Whenever I create a new table or column in a web app, I aim for clarity so that anyone connecting directly to the database can...
When you open a Ruby file who's already there? puts self.inspect # main puts self.__id__ # 16 puts self.class.name # Object puts method(:inspect).owner.class # ObjectWhy...
Here are two resources that I think are important to read when you are working with Time in Ruby. It's About Time (Zones)This article is...
How to create a new Rails app with Rails 8.1.0.beta1 gem install -v 8.1.0.beta1 rails rails _8.1.0.beta1_ new mynewrails81app You can also generate a new...
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...