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The /etc/hosts Headache If you are building a SaaS that uses subdomains (like…

Rails’ enum DSL is great for single values, but what about multiple? We compared 4 approaches across performance, extensibility, and maintainability t...

After picking up Minitest for one of my retainer clients, I’ve had confusing errors in our test suite for a while. Turn out Rails is kinda cheeky when...

👉 https://rubystacknews.com/2026/03/02/%f0%9f%9a%80-the-production-grade-ruby-microservices-stack-2026/

The Industry Standard Trap If you look at any “Modern Web Dev” tutorial, Step 1 is almost…

https://rubystacknews.com/2026/03/02/%f0%9f%87%af%f0%9f%87%b5-kaigi-2026-is-approaching-why-the-global-ruby-community-should-pay-close-attention/

In this episode, we look at a few different ways of improving the speed of a page. There are many paths to take. Some of them leaves a lot of optimiza...

The Dogma vs. The Deadline If you spend any time in the Rails community, you’ve heard the…

🔗 Read the article: https://rubystacknews.com/2026/03/01/%f0%9f%9a%80-terminal-ux-in-ruby-beautiful-tools-without-leaving-the-shell/

We just open-sourced wreq-ruby, the first production-ready Ruby HTTP client with real browser TLS/HTTP2 fingerprinting. It emulates the exact signatur...

Ruby has a standard library for making web requests called Net::HTTP. It is famously terrible. The…

The “I’ll Remember This” Lie We tell ourselves the same lie every day. “I don’t need to…

https://beautifulruby.com/code/enclave is an mruby sandbox that runs inside Ruby. Why? Because maybe you want to expose tools inside the sandbox, like...

https://rubystacknews.com/2026/02/27/%f0%9f%a6%80-rust-inside-ruby-core-a-new-systems-layer-for-mri/

I published an article on how to properly add indexes with Rails, handling the creation of Postgres indices concurrently in delayed database migration...

https://judoscale.com/blog/heroku-whats-next

The Graveyard of Perfect Apps We all have a ~/projects folder filled with half-finished…

https://rubystacknews.com/2026/02/26/%f0%9f%a7%b1-rack-is-still-innovating-the-backbone-of-rubys-web-stack-keeps-evolving/

👉 Read the full article: https://rubystacknews.com/2026/02/26/ruby-4-rails-8-a-multi-front-acceleration-of-the-ruby-ecosystem/

https://rubystacknews.com/2026/02/25/%f0%9f%a7%a9-ruby-4s-quiet-improvements-small-changes-that-matter-in-real-code/

It is wild how fast things change. Just a few years ago, we were amazed that GitHub Copilot could…

Rails’ encrypts directive is great until you need full-text search across those columns. You can’t query what the database can’t see — that’s the whol...

https://rubystacknews.com/2026/02/24/%f0%9f%a7%b5-ruby-4-concurrency-gets-real-understanding-ractorport-in-practice/

We type gem install rails or bundle install every day. Text scrolls down the screen, and suddenly we…

Rkwalify gem (previously released as kwality) 1.4.0 released

https://drexed.github.io/cmdx/blog/mastering-cmdx-workflows/

Hey! I’ve created yet another decorator gem - https://github.com/alec-c4/auto_decorator It is lightweight, fast and not over-engineered :)

Ruby 3.4 introduces an experimental but potentially game-changing capability: Modular Garbage Collectors.

If you are coming from JavaScript (npm/yarn) or Python (pip/virtualenv), the Ruby way of doing things…

https://madbomber.github.io/blog/engineering/what's-new-in-aia-v1.0.0/

https://rubystacknews.com/2026/02/23/neither-too-much-nor-too-little-a-touch-base-on-the-current-state-of-ai/

I wrote a little post about how a small Ruby app can help to proxy SQLMap(or any other fuzzer) requests to websocket endpoints. https://greg.molnar.io...

https://rubystacknews.com/2026/02/22/%f0%9f%a7%aa-ruby-in-the-browser-exploring-rubox-and-the-future-of-ruby-wasm/

The “Partial” Problem We love Rails. We love ERB. But let’s be honest: app/views is…

In this article, I want to share my journey with ActiveRecord. When I first started with Rails, I…

The “Manjaro Plateau” For years, Manjaro was my comfortable home. It was the “Arch for…

Do you have, like me, a bunch of Ruby scripts that make your life easier? Why not make them available to your e-friends too?

It’s a story that begins with a pull request and ends with a Zen Buddhist saying: https://lovro-bikic.github.io/300-days-of-rubocop/

Ruby’s flexibility is great until every developer on the team writes service objects differently. After years of working with Rails codebases where ea...

https://rubystacknews.com/2026/02/20/%f0%9f%a7%a0-rubykaigi-2024-a-deep-technical-shift-in-rubys-standard-library-with-real-examples/

https://rubystacknews.com/2026/02/20/what-rails-actually-wants-tidying-controllers-and-views-without-service-object-explosion/

Explore the philosophy behind software design: preserving changeability, measuring code friction, and balancing technical debt with over-engineering.

The Selenium Struggle If you’ve done any browser automation in Ruby, you know the…

A Search and Replace in PDF tool https://flexfiles.io/en/search-and-replace is essential for anyone who regularly edits PDFs. Whether you are a profes...

https://rubystacknews.com/2026/02/18/%e2%9a%a1-from-30-minutes-to-2-speed-running-rails-ci-without-cheating-much/

The “Overkill” Problem If you ask a developer today how to scrape a website that requires…

The “Blank Page” Paralysis You have the database schema planned. You have the models…

I call my LLM-based service objects robots instead of agents. Why? because robots do what you tell them. Agent have agency. That means they can make c...

https://rubystacknews.com/2026/02/17/stop-checking-admin-designing-authorization-that-wont-become-technical-debt-kaigi-on-rails-2025/

fake-file: A lightweight Ruby gem to effortlessly mock and generate files for your tests. I’d love to get your feedback or see your PRs!