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669 articlesIf you write Ruby, you will eventually get curious about Elixir. The creator of Elixir, José Valim,…
https://rubystacknews.com/2026/04/15/create-qr-codes-from-scratch-with-ruby-ruby-libgd-and-rqrcode/
Sometimes I find myself starting a new Rails project, and almost immediately, I hit a wall: User…
“Oh Ruby, you’re the most elegant and beautiful language ever! I just love you so much…” https://andymaleh.blogspot.com/2026/04/ruby-memes-2026-04-14-...
Earlier this year I was freaked out about AI. I’ve spent the months since using it constantly, on every project, at every stage. I expected to feel re...
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Learn how to implement the Singleton pattern in Ruby: built-in module, manual approach, thread safety, the class variable trap, and dependency injecti...
https://rubystacknews.com/2026/04/13/building-mapview-architecture-ci-cd-and-production-deployment-on-railway/
Solo founders fail for a completely preventable reason. It’s not because their idea was bad, and it’s…
More than 8 months later, I finally managed to put some thoughts about the passing of my dear friend Piotr into a post: Remembering Piotr “chastell” S...
https://rubystacknews.com/2026/04/12/mapview-server-side-map-rendering-for-rails/
We are fully in the era of autonomous coding. If you use tools like Cursor, Windsurf, or Copilot…
There are Rails applications that run incredibly fast on a developer’s laptop, but the moment they…
This post introduces ractor_queue v0.1.0, a bounded, lock-free, Multi-Producer Multi-Consumer (MPMC) queue that is always Ractor.shareable?. It is the...
llm.rb is a runtime for building AI systems that integrate directly with your application. It is not just an API wrapper. It provides a unified execut...
https://rubystacknews.com/2026/04/10/building-a-complete-gis-stack-in-rails-ruby-libgd-libgd-gis-map_view/
Stop Using SQL LIKE: A Step-by-Step Guide to Elasticsearch in Rails When you build a…
Regular expressions (regex) are powerful tools for pattern matching and text manipulation https://www.railscarma.com/blog/ruby-regex-match-guide-with-...
A new version of the Ruby bindings to RE2, a “fast, safe, thread-friendly alternative to backtracking regular expression engines like those used in PC...
Building Drag and Drop in Rails 8 with SortableJS and Importmaps Very often I find myself…
Post: https://railsdesigner.com/introducing-fuik/ Repo: https://github.com/rails-designer/fuik
https://rubystacknews.com/2026/04/08/pure-ruby-maps-libgd-gis-rails/
Very often I see JavaScript developers getting tired of building backend APIs with Express.js….
Rabarber, a role-based authorization gem for Rails, releases v6.0.0. The new version finalizes the API cleanup started in v5 and reworks the caching m...
When a small UI interaction gets tricky, it’s easy for Stimulus/JS to end up full of class toggling that’s really just presentation logic. This articl...
https://rubystacknews.com/2026/04/07/mapview-static-maps-for-rails-no-js-no-frontend-just-ruby/
Five git one-liners I run on every new codebase before opening a file. Churn hotspots, bus factor, bug clusters, commit velocity, and crisis patterns....
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https://rubystacknews.com/2026/04/06/whats-this-dragonruby-game-toolkit/
Very often I find myself remembering the “bad old days” of Linux. If you wanted to install a simple…
If you’ve been following any of the recent Heroku announcements… https://judoscale.com/blog/heroku-whats-going-on
https://rubystacknews.com/2026/04/05/this-week-in-rails-faster-logs-reliable-parallel-tests-and-key-deprecations/
I’ve written an article about how I make it simpler for new developers to contribute to projects, rather than throw up barriers to keep people out.
llm.rb v4.11.0 introduces streaming tool execution—tools can start while the model is still responding, overlapping latency with output. It adds MCP s...
rbenv vs rvm vs asdf vs mise vs chruby vs direnv Very often I see beginners getting…
https://a-chacon.com/en/just%20ruby/2026/04/03/rv-missing-piece-for-ruby-programmer-happiness.html
Very often I find myself writing small, standalone Ruby scripts. Maybe it’s a web scraper, a small…
Ruby 4.0 has continued the tradition of moved gems from “default” to “bundled status” - but to many Ruby developers, the exact difference isn’t clear....
I nearly removed a working feature because a dynamic Rails abstraction hid its callers from search. Here’s a look at the hidden maintenance costs of e...
Rails upgrades don’t become difficult because of Rails. They become difficult because systems accumulate structure.
Hello! I’ve just released updates to my introductory Rails on RSpec book for Rails 8 and Ruby 4. It’s available now on Leanpub, and as always a free u...
If you are a Ruby on Rails developer, you have definitely heard about Elixir and the Phoenix…
Internator is still the Ruby CLI that:
https://piechowski.io/post/ruby-3-2-eol/
https://rubystacknews.com/2026/04/02/the-ai-art-competition-that-nobody-won/
How Importmaps Work in Rails (And Why You Don’t Need Webpack) When I first started…
Rails 8.0 is going EOL soon; if you’ve already got it done, great! If you’re stuck with a legacy project and need to plan an upgrade, though, this gui...
Competent vs Incompetent Ruby Devs When Encountering React: https://andymaleh.blogspot.com/2026/04/competent-vs-incompetent-ruby-devs-when.html
In this episode, we look at how we can modify our application from a performance aspect to increase our job security. We’ll slow down our application ...
