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1434 articles🔗 Read the article: https://rubystacknews.com/2026/03/01/%f0%9f%9a%80-terminal-ux-in-ruby-beautiful-tools-without-leaving-the-shell/
March 1, 2026 The Modern CLI Stack Beyond puts Ruby is often associated with web applications, background jobs, and scripting. But quietly — almost un...
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/
February 27, 2026 For nearly three decades, CRuby (MRI) has been overwhelmingly a C codebase. That stability has been both a strength and a constraint...
I published an article on how to properly add indexes with Rails, handling the creation of Postgres indices concurrently in delayed database migration...
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/
February 26, 2026 In recent months, much of the conversation in the Ruby ecosystem has focused on Ruby 4, Rails 8, concurrency, JIT compilers, and run...
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February 26, 2026 In recent years, Ruby and Ruby on Rails have quietly entered a phase of rapid, multidimensional evolution. Rather than a single disr...
https://rubystacknews.com/2026/02/25/%f0%9f%a7%a9-ruby-4s-quiet-improvements-small-changes-that-matter-in-real-code/
When Ruby 4 was announced, most discussions focused on experimental features like Ractors, new JIT work, or isolation mechanisms. However, beneath the...
It is wild how fast things change. Just a few years ago, we were amazed that GitHub Copilot could…
#789 — February 26, 2026 Read on the Web Ruby Weekly Rage: The Modern, Real-Time Ruby Framework — We don’t mention Rage enough! 😅 It’s a high-perform...
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/
Ruby has long balanced developer happiness with safety, but parallel performance has historically been constrained by the Global VM Lock (GVL). Ractor...
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.
February 23, 2026 Ruby has traditionally shipped with a single, built-in garbage collector tightly coupled to the VM. With Ruby 3.4, that assumption b...
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/
The one where 37 Signals launches Upright open source monitoring tool, Rubocop gets an experimental MCP server, Rails Designer shows us how to use Sti...
The one where 37 Signals launches Upright open source monitoring tool, Rubocop gets an experimental MCP server, Rails Designer shows us how to use Sti...
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...
February 23, 2026 Motivated by the many comments — some fearful, others excessively enthusiastic — about artificial intelligence, I set out to “touch ...
https://rubystacknews.com/2026/02/22/%f0%9f%a7%aa-ruby-in-the-browser-exploring-rubox-and-the-future-of-ruby-wasm/
February 22, 2026 A fully client-side Ruby playground powered by WebAssembly — promising, experimental, and not quite ready for prime time Running Rub...
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?
Working with maps usually means working with numbers — lots of numbers. If you want to render a map of a country, region, or continent, you normally n...
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/
February 20, 2026 RubyKaigi 2024 — Historical Context Although this presentation discusses Ruby 3.4–3.5 and the ecosystem has already moved forward to...
https://rubystacknews.com/2026/02/20/what-rails-actually-wants-tidying-controllers-and-views-without-service-object-explosion/
February 20, 2026 Lessons from RailsTokyo 2026 on using ActiveRecord as a relational engine—not just an ORM Modern Rails teams often inherit a paradox...
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…
