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602 articlesBuilding 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.
The one where Vladimir Dementyev launched Redprints CFP, JRuby 10.0.2.0 was released and where Nate Berkopec launched their new gem sidekiq-memory_log...
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.
#762 — August 7, 2025 Read on the Web Ruby Weekly What’s Wrong with the JSON Gem API? — Fed up with json’s unsafe defaults? Following on from his fan...
https://github.com/Praxis-Emergent/islandjs-rails
https://railsdesigner.com/saas/subdomains-in-development-rails/
🦙 Introducing RapiTapir: Type-Safe HTTP APIs for Ruby
A staging environment is a safe replica of production where you can test features before going live. In this post, we'll create a staging environment ...
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...
The one where Ruby Conf Austria is announced, Alexandru Golovatenco launches railsblocks.com with over 175 UI components, and Oskars Ezerins creates a...
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.
#761 — July 31, 2025 Read on the Web Ruby Weekly Code Reloading for Rack Apps — If you’re working with Rack-backed apps that aren’t Rails apps, you m...
In this post, I'll provision and configure the staging infrastructure for my blog, which is a Rails application. This includes installing and setting ...
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 one where RubyCentral released all the videos from the final Rails Conf, a lot of new products built with Ruby or for Ruby launched and tickets fo...
This is the first post in the series where I'm building my blog in Ruby on Rails. I'll create a new Rails application and we'll walk through some of t...
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/
#760 — July 24, 2025 Read on the Web Ruby Weekly 🤖 Red Candle: Run LLMs Directly from Ruby — An interesting new library that uses some Rust unde...
After three years on Ghost, I'm rebuilding this blog from scratch with Ruby on Rails. In a new series, I'll document the journey of building a product...
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 ....
July 21, 2025 When working with date ranges or numeric intervals in Ruby on Rails, writing clear and idiomatic code can be the difference between “jus...
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.
#759 — July 17, 2025 Read on the Web Ruby Weekly How I Spent Months Solving Ruby's Most Annoying Gem Installation Problem — If you’ve sat waiting for...
