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November 25, 2025 In every engineering team, the topic eventually comes up: Should our tests be concise and optimized, or explicit and easy to read? A...

Should a Ruby class do just one thing? Explore the Single Responsibility Principle, cohesion, and when to split classes through practical examples.

Welcome to another edition of the Embarrassing Ruby/Rails Subreddit Chronicles. Attached are screenshots for another embarrassing incident demonstrati...

Check out my latest article to explore the highlights and see why your next project should embrace the future of Ruby: https://rubystacknews.com/2025/...

November 24, 2025 Ruby keeps evolving, and the 4.0.0-preview2 release is packed with exciting changes. If you love clean code, emojis, and a little bi...

The one where Ruby releases 4.0.0.preview2, Maedi proposes a new supported syntax for defining types, and 12 podcast episodes are published

https://dev-tester.com/speed-up-your-rails-testing-workflow-with-local-ci/

I’ve used them in payments, approvals, integrations, and complex backend processes — and every time, they help keep the logic clean, predictable, and ...

November 21, 2025 State machines are one of the cleanest and most reliable ways to model workflows in software. If your system needs to move through p...

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I’m thrilled to announce a significant update to the Kickstart Rails app template, now featuring robust support for inertia_rails. This allows you to ...

So you want to learn more about Ruby, but you don’t know where to start? What if you could follow a list of free resources to learn Ruby?

#​776 — November 20, 2025 Read on the Web Ruby Weekly Ruby 4.0.0 Preview 2 Released — I never saw a preview 1, but following Matz’s announcement of Ru...

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https://www.railscarma.com/blog/how-to-create-and-work-with-date-objects-in-ruby-on-rails/

I wrote a deep dive into how Ruby’s object model and metaprogramming can make your Rails apps cleaner, faster to evolve, and easier to maintain. If yo...

November 18, 2025 How to Build Flexible, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems** By Germán Alberto Silva (senior Rubyist since 2005) Ruby is often descri...

I prefer to limit controllers to use the “default” seven actions supported by using Rails’ resource routing. My reasoning has nothing to do with perfo...

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Rails form_for vs form_with

It teaches how to think — and sometimes, even how to talk.

November 13, 2025 Sometimes, the smallest details in a language reveal the biggest lessons. Recently, during a code review, someone suggested I change...

https://www.fastruby.io/blog/hidden-dangers-in-your-gemfile.html

Learn how the custom Rails Upgrade Assistant Skill, built on Anthropic’s platform, automates the tedious process of merging configurations and detecti...

#​775 — November 13, 2025 Read on the Web Ruby Weekly Photo used with the kind permission of Koichiro Ohba Ruby 4.0 is arriving this year! The RubyWor...

Two more free Phlex on Rails Component fundamentals videos for the beginning of this week: Rendering and Tags, attributes, & text.

In the final part of our Showcase for Rails series, we’ll look at its key feature - samples: https://blog.appsignal.com/2025/11/12/rendering-samples-w...

Our biggest release yet. Rack 3, resource routes, and so much more. https://hanamirb.org/blog/2025/11/12/hanami-23-racked-and-ready/

Keeping things simple and letting your app tell you where you need to change it is the best option. You don’t need different architectures or patterns...

I didn’t fully understand the semantics of < in a gemspec with respect to pre-release gems until I tried to upgrade a beta version of rails to the ...

The latest CMDx update lets you mark execution arguments as required only in certain conditions. This helps when objects behave a bit differently depe...

First steps into game development with DragonRuby, discover Ruby's Smalltalk neighbors, Hunt a Ruby memory bug, See arguments against RSpec shared exa...

I just published a short post on the 5 most common Rails performance issues. https://www.shivamchahar.com/posts/rails-performance-5-critical-bottlenec...

The one where Ruby 4.0 is announced, where Namespace is renamed to Ruby::Box and deep_freeze is under discussion

Long ago, we were building a custom admin area with multiple internal roles, each requiring different access levels. Existing authorization solutions ...

Partner with a trusted Outsourced Product Development (OPD) company like Synclovis Systems. By outsourcing your product development, you can reduce co...

Hey Ruby friends! I wrote a post about My go-to prompt for legacy code exploration. It’s not Ruby-specific but I use it a lot on Rails rescue projects...

Today I’m kicking off the second unit of free Phlex on Rails videos with the “Phlex is Ruby” video at https://beautifulruby.com/phlex/components/basic...

https://judoscale.com/blog/scaling-sideways-why-you-might-want-to-run-two-production-apps

The last of my introduction videos, “Why Rails” at https://beautifulruby.com/phlex/overview/rails and “Why Components?” at https://beautifulruby.com/p...

https://blog.appsignal.com/2025/11/05/an-introduction-to-game-development-with-dragonruby.html

#​774 — November 6, 2025 Read on the Web Ruby Weekly When Your Hash Becomes a String: Hunting Ruby's Million-to-One Memory Bug — This is genuinel...

Here’s how to save costs and avoid DockerHub with a completely local Docker registry.

I released Kamal Handbook 2.1 which updates the book to Kamal 2.8.2.

https://beautifulruby.com/phlex/overview/phlex is the first video in a series where I’m going to make some of the Phlex on Rails videos free for a day...

Learn to write a custom Bundler plugin with this series of articles from PracticalRubyGems.com - companion site to the new book from Apress. The tutor...

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Master the N+1 problem in Active Record. Understand when to use joins, includes, or both to optimize Rails database queries and boost performance.