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853 articlesStop 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
llm.rb v4.12.0 has been released. Check the CHANGELOG for details.
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 ...
For a long time, if you wanted to build a fast, modern web application without page reloads, you had…
https://rubystacknews.com/2026/03/31/rails-logs-a-blessing-in-development-a-headache-in-production/
I’ve released Rails Consent, a Rails Engine that provides a simple way to add cookie consent and privacy preference management to Ruby on Rails applic...
I recently released Turbo Tour, a Ruby on Rails engine that makes it easy to add interactive product tours to your Rails applications.
When I first started web scraping, my workflow was always the same. I would use Nokogiri to download…
https://www.rorvswild.com/blog/2026/advanced-domain-modeling-global-message-bus-event-reporter A new way to decouple code since Rails 8.1
Five signals that tell you the codebase (not the team) is the bottleneck, turned into an interactive scoring rubric. Covers estimate padding, deploy f...
https://rubystacknews.com/2026/03/30/github-deletes-your-traffic-logs-every-14-days-heres-how-to-stop-that-with-ruby/
This skill is built on real-world experience, not just documentation:
https://rubystacknews.com/2026/03/30/ruby-libgd-the-modern-ruby-image-library-youve-been-sleeping-on/
Semantic search for a Rails blog using sqlite-vec, Kamal, Docker and a small embedding service backed by EmbeddingGemma.
If you spend too much time on X or Reddit, you might think the only jobs left in 2026 are for AI…
After years of evolution, rewrites, and the migration from proprietary code to open source, Lesli 5.1 is the first official stable release of a modula...
If you want to build a web application or a SaaS today, the first thing you have to do is pick a…
When you build a standard Rails app, PostgreSQL (or MySQL) is your best friend. It handles your…
