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March 8, 2026 For many developers who experienced the early days of the hacker culture and the free software movement, programming once had a differen...
Let’s get the elephant out of the room immediately: Python has won the popularity contest. If you…
A small deployment experiment with Kamal unexpectedly triggered an email from the German government. This post walks through what happened, what it re...
Web scraping in Ruby isn’t a “one size fits all” task. If you use a headless browser for a static…
The Headless Browser Trap If you want to scrape a modern React or Vue website, the…
I just released wsdl, a Ruby gem for working with SOAP services. It parses WSDL 1.1 documents, lets you inspect operation contracts, build requests, a...
https://rubystacknews.com/2026/03/05/ruby-as-an-orchestrator-language/
March 5, 2026 Ruby excels at structuring applications, managing logic, and coordinating systems. In many real-world architectures, Ruby acts as the or...
Most Rails developers stop learning routing after resources :posts. But if you are building a SaaS…
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https://rubystacknews.com/2026/03/04/image-processing-in-ruby-with-gd-exploring-ruby-libgd-v0-3-0/
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March 4, 2026 Building Native Extensions with C (and Rust) Ruby is known for its productivity and elegant syntax, but sometimes performance-critical t...
The Missing Link If you’ve spent more than a week with Ruby on Rails, you’ve probably used…
#790 — March 5, 2026 Read on the Web Ruby Weekly ruby-prof 2.0: The Tracing Profiler for CRuby — Now celebrating its 21st birthday(!), ruby-prof rema...
March 4, 2026 Image processing is usually associated with languages like Python or C++, but Ruby can also manipulate images efficiently thanks to bind...
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March 3, 2026 Today I implemented support for custom convolution filters in Ruby-LibGD, enabling the application of kernels such as blur, sharpen, and...
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...
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March 2, 2026 Microservices don’t fail because of Ruby. They fail because of architecture. Most “microservices” I see in Ruby are: • HTTP chains tight...
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/
March 2, 2026 With April approaching, RubyKaigi 2026 is about to take place in Hakodate, Japan — and for the global Ruby community, this is not just a...
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…
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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/
