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22 articles#776 — November 20, 2025 Read on the Web Ruby Weekly Ruby 4.0.0 Preview 2 Released — I never saw a preview 1, but following Matz’s announcement of Ru...
#775 — November 13, 2025 Read on the Web Ruby Weekly Photo used with the kind permission of Koichiro Ohba Ruby 4.0 is arriving this year! The RubyWor...
#774 — November 6, 2025 Read on the Web Ruby Weekly When Your Hash Becomes a String: Hunting Ruby's Million-to-One Memory Bug — This is genuinel...
#773 — October 30, 2025 Read on the Web Ruby Weekly Frozen String Literals: Past, Present, Future? — You’ll either have written or seen # frozen_stri...
#772 — October 23, 2025 Read on the Web Ruby Weekly The Ruby Core Team Takes Ownership of the RubyGems Repo — After several weeks of confusion, the R...
#771 — October 16, 2025 Read on the Web Ruby Weekly Lost in Minitest? Start Here! — I’m a big Minitest fan, but RSpec is still the most common testin...
#770 — October 9, 2025 Read on the Web Ruby Weekly Buckle Up, There’s a New Gem Server in Town: gem․coop — The recent, tense situation around RubyGem...
#769 — October 2, 2025 Read on the Web Ruby Weekly The Ruby Association's Call For Grant Proposals — Each year, the Ruby Association, chaired by Ruby...
#768 — September 25, 2025 Read on the Web The top item in today's issue focuses on a complex issue that has arisen around the RubyGems and Bundler pr...
#767 — September 18, 2025 Read on the Web Ruby Weekly Reworking Memory Management in CRuby — Based on a talk and paper (also included), Peter discuss...
#766 — September 11, 2025 Read on the Web I've put together a timestamped summary of the main points from DHH's Rails World keynote at the end of thi...
#765 — September 4, 2025 Read on the Web Ruby Weekly The RubyMine IDE Now Free for Non-Commercial Use — RubyMine is a popular commercial IDE for Ruby...
#764 — August 28, 2025 Read on the Web Ruby Weekly How RubyGems.org Protects Our Community’s Critical OSS Infrastructure — A look behind the curtain ...
#763 — August 21, 2025 Read on the Web Ruby Weekly Circuit Breakers and Ruby in 2025 — An introduction to the circuit breaker pattern for preventing ...
#762 — August 7, 2025 Read on the Web Ruby Weekly What’s Wrong with the JSON Gem API? — Fed up with json’s unsafe defaults? Following on from his fan...
#761 — July 31, 2025 Read on the Web Ruby Weekly Code Reloading for Rack Apps — If you’re working with Rack-backed apps that aren’t Rails apps, you m...
#760 — July 24, 2025 Read on the Web Ruby Weekly 🤖 Red Candle: Run LLMs Directly from Ruby — An interesting new library that uses some Rust unde...
#759 — July 17, 2025 Read on the Web Ruby Weekly How I Spent Months Solving Ruby's Most Annoying Gem Installation Problem — If you’ve sat waiting for...
#758 — July 10, 2025 Read on the Web Ruby Weekly Brut: A New Web Framework for Ruby — With no controllers, no verbs, no resources, and an HTML-first,...
#757 — July 3, 2025 Read on the Web Ruby Weekly Omarchy: DHH's New Opinionated Arch/Hyprland Setup — DHH says he feels the same way about Linux now a...
#756 — June 26, 2025 Read on the Web Ruby Weekly On Rails: A New Podcast from The Rails Foundation — The Rails Foundation wanted to launch a new podc...
#755 — June 19, 2025 Read on the Web Ruby Weekly As part of Gift Egwuenu's latest RubyGems monthly update post, some Ruby version and gem download st...