Community-driven Ruby news and articles
169 articlesAdopting a circuit breaker pattern from day one? Our new post explains this approach and how it can now fit into Ruby projects of any size. Plus, we s...
We’ll dive into how ActiveStorage handles uploaded data and how to extend this process in the second part of this two-part series: https://blog.appsig...
With https://github.com/igorkasyanchuk/rspec_power you can print logs while running specs, define ENV variables, or change locales, etc. All with meta...
Building a great product is a good starting point for success, but it’s rarely enough to generate meaningful traction. There are many channels we can ...
A deep dive into the health of widely used RubyGems. From hidden, rarely updated gems to high-profile libraries like rest-client, we explore what’s be...
Jekyll-Timeago reaches v1! After some years of stability, it’s time to mark this important milestone 🎉
A modern Ruby client for the Brave Search API that brings web search capabilities to Ruby applications.
llm.rb is a zero-dependency Ruby toolkit for Large Language Models that includes OpenAI, Gemini, Anthropic, DeepSeek, Ollama, and LlamaCpp. The toolki...
Build a complete, functional URL shortener from scratch with Ruby and Rack. This tutorial guides you in creating a real-world web application with a s...
Lancelot provides Ruby-native bindings to Lance, a modern columnar data format designed for ML workloads. Think Apache Parquet meets vector database -...
RubyFlow has been running on a 5+ year old codebase and in order to add new features (such as spam mitigation!!) I’ve had to massively gut the codebas...
I took a ruby AI workflow app and transformed it from “cute workflow” to a real agent and wrote down the scars. No hype. Just what actually worked.
https://github.com/Praxis-Emergent/islandjs-rails
https://railsdesigner.com/saas/subdomains-in-development-rails/
🦙 Introducing RapiTapir: Type-Safe HTTP APIs for Ruby
https://www.railscarma.com/blog/beginners-guide-to-ruby-on-rails-editing-credentials-and-encrypted-secrets/
Learn how to integrate React into Rails applications using Superglue while keeping form helpers, flash messages, and authentication flows. This compre...
Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an API interface for your applications that are formatted in a way that machine learning platforms can interact with t...
A journey into the wildly confusing /o regex modifier in Ruby.
https://develclan.com/ruby-streaming-bodies-sse-websockets-rack/
A guide on how to remove noise from structure.sql diffs in Rails when working with MySQL.
Introducing Decant, a dependency-free frontmatter-aware framework-agnostic wrapper around a directory of static content (probably Markdown) that pairs...
Understanding exactly how Hotwire Native integrates with the web app can be very helpful both in debugging issues and deciding if Hotwire Native is th...
We’ll dive into how ActiveStorage treats uploaded data, and how to extend this process, in part one of this two-part series: https://blog.appsignal.co...
Learn how we used multi-modal Large Language Models to automatically categorize more than 1 million boat images, reducing months of manual work to a c...
A short article on how multiple Stimulus controllers communicate with each other using dispatch-method in Stimulus controller. https://www.jomppanen.c...
Learn how to integrate the Model Context Protocol (MCP) into your Rails application to create intelligent, AI-powered tools that can interact with you...
Hiring in India is now easier due to Employer of Record (EOR) services. An EOR is a third-party organization. It hires employees for you and manages H...
The golden rule for libraries is to support integration with as many parent apps as possible because you want to cover as much as you can of the full ...
https://beautifulruby.com/code/service-objects is the clearest I’ve been able to articulate what I don’t like about service objects and how I think th...
Himg renders HTML to an image - no browser needed. Add dynamic images to your site with just a .himg.erb template, perfect for transforming boring lin...
https://railsdesigner.com/multistep-forms/
First edition at https://beautifulruby.com/code/superform-simple-select-fields in a series that’s going to compare Rails form helpers with Superform. ...
Red Candle is a Ruby gem that lets you run Llama 2, Llama 3, Mistral, and Gemma large language models directly inside your Ruby process using Rust.
https://pawelurbanek.com/rails-postgresql-mcp
Wrote https://beautifulruby.com/code/simple-phlex-class-variants to explain how to build component variations with nested Ruby classes and endless met...
Token authentication, phone number verification or any form of Two-Factor Authentication are common features nowadays. A pattern that emerges from the...
When you’re dealing with date windows or numeric intervals in Rails, there’s a simple trick to make your queries shorter and more expressive: Ruby’s ....
Your framework to build digital and explorable collections released several enhancements in the last weeks:
Just published a new Ruby gem claude_code — an unofficial SDK for working with Anthropic’s Claude Code via Ruby. It wraps the Claude CLI and supports:
Herb v0.4.0 is out, now with the Herb Linter, a Herb Formatter preview, and deeper editor integration for HTML+ERB.
https://github.com/igorkasyanchuk/editor_opener (a new version was released today: added support for a new Kiro IDE and other minor fixes). Interestin...
https://blog.appsignal.com/2025/07/16/advanced-jit-compilers-for-ruby-truffleruby-and-jruby.html
MiniI18n reaches v1! After some years of stability, it’s time to mark this important milestone 🎉
The fourth update at https://beautifulruby.com/articles/phlex-week-four-update will be one of my final updates during the “still accepting feedback on...
A summary of my experience at the last RailsConf. https://kevinjmurphy.com/posts/railsconf-2025-recap/
The ruby gem aia (AI Assistant) v0.9.9 has been released along with a series of blog articles discussing the CLI-based AI utility starting with the AI...
A Story of Whimsy, Free Kazoos, and Web-Sockets… https://judoscale.com/blog/rails-on-premise-railsconf
The glimmer-web-components Ruby gem aims to offer a collection of reusable Glimmer Web Components for Glimmer DSL for Web (Award Winning Ruby on Rails...
