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853 articlesI remember when I first started with Rails, I thought .count, .length, and .size were exactly the…
rails-persona adds first-class behavioral tracking to any ActiveRecord model. Define trackable actions with a DSL, then query frequency, inactivity, l...
https://tejasbubane.github.io/posts/rate-limit-rack-app-per-account/
Rails does not render views by guessing filenames. It builds a template lookup query from the controller, action, format, variant, handler, and view p...
I got tied of cussing the CLI task running that I’ve been using for a few years. It was good but it wasn’t Ruby. So I wrote my own. The power of The M...
I love Rails, but I’ve always found ERB to be a bit messy. You spend your whole day jumping between…
I like the simplicity of traditional Rails apps and the component-based approach of ViewComponent, but I always felt the ecosystem was missing somethi...
For a long time, if you wanted a primary key that was both unique and chronological, you reached for…
https://github.com/durable-oss/rapidyaml-rb
Last week, I spent an extended weekend in Rimini, Italy, for the first edition of Rubycon. I decided to present an impromptu lightning talk to connect...
https://rubystacknews.com/2026/05/28/running-ai-locally-for-ruby-development-a-practical-guide-with-ollama-aider-and-your-own-codebase/
https://baweaver.com/writing/2026/05/27/ai-didnt-create-these-problems/
I know the feeling of opening a blank index.html.erb file and having no idea how to make it look…
https://railsdesigner.com/building-customizable-tailwind-themes/ — Using OKLCH you can tweak one custom property, e.g. :root { --color-value: 60; } an...
https://rubystacknews.com/2026/05/27/exploring-rubys-openssl-stdlib-internals-from-c-bindings-to-ruby-apis/
In a previous article, I talked about Snowflake IDs. They are great, but they require a bit of…
https://rubystacknews.com/2026/05/26/understanding-ruby-proc-internals-through-proc-c/
I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve been tempted by a “revolutionary” new database. Every few…
https://paweldabrowski.com/farewell-to-rails-way/five-foundations-for-building-complex-rails-apps
https://rubystacknews.com/2026/01/09/ruby-can-draw-cities-now/
Automating the “glue work” of a SaaS business is a survival skill for a solo developer. You need to…
Robert is a native FreeBSD AI assistant. He can read man pages, search documentation, and help you troubleshoot. It is distributed as a 2MB standalone...
Rails controller actions do not return HTTP responses directly. They perform response state through render, redirect_to, head, or implicit rendering, ...
rails-llm provides generators and an engine for the llm.rb runtime inside Ruby on Rails. The engine includes a chat interface, and the generators take...
https://dev.to/sergii-khomenko/writing-code-got-cheap-being-responsible-for-it-didnt-what-shipping-an-ai-generated-gem-taught-1fci
When you run rails generate model, Rails defaults to using a standard auto-incrementing integer for…
New episode is out. David recaps Blue Ridge Ruby and talks about coming back motivated to contribute more to open source, which leads into a broader d...
A collection of the various Ruby libraries and execution environments for building desktop, mobile, terminal, game, and browser applications.
Most developers think that “progress” means adding lines of code. We feel good when we finish a new…
I wrote a post as an introduction to developing your own AI agent that is backed up an ActiveRecord model. The agent can search and read man pages, an...
A walk through the design choices for showing rich UI in an LLM chat app instead of plain text bubbles. Tools, schemas, and a tiny gem for generative ...
https://github.com/sergey-homenko/llm_cost_tracker
https://rubystacknews.com/2026/05/20/ruby-libgd-cheat-sheet-building-native-graphics-pipelines-in-ruby/
We are living in a wild time for software development. With tools like Cursor, Windsurf, and ChatGPT,…
Every morning, I see the same thing on my Twitter feed or the GitHub Trending page. A new Ruby gem is…
I got tired of the existing APM options being overkill for smaller Rails projects, so I built DeadBro. It detects N+1 queries, tracks errors with full...
Springtime in Portland is always a true delight, and the perfect backdrop for our newest release of Bridgetown, version 2.2 “Verdant River City“. Feat...
ActiveHarness — a Ruby framework for building production-ready AI agents with multiple LLM providers, lifecycle hooks, and a Rails-friendly DSL. Made ...
We are a renowned Software Development Company in the USA called Sapphire Software Solutions that provides inexpensive Web and Mobile Application Deve...
I just released stimulus_grid_rails v0.1.0 — Rails + Hotwire bindings for a server-driven, multi-user editable data grid over Turbo Streams and Action...
When to reach for duck typing and when for inheritance in Ruby. Template Method, hook messages, and the signals that point to a hidden abstraction.
https://rubystacknews.com/2026/05/19/inside-rubys-net-http-exploring-the-networking-engine-behind-ruby-apis/
If you want a terminal that tells you if a command is valid, predicts what you’re about to type, and…
I spent years looking at websites like Stripe or Linear and feeling depressed. I would try to…
https://yaroslav.io/posts/inkmark-fast-ai-first-markdown
https://www.rubyforum.org/t/phlex-literal-are-joining-the-ruby-users-forum
https://paweldabrowski.com/farewell-to-rails-way/when-rails-way-does-not-work
CMDx has been updated with richer error messages that include links to documentation and common issues. Middleware’s how support using status methods ...
