Short Ruby Newsletter - edition 139

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Table of Contents

• 🚀 Launches and discounts

• 📅 Events

• 👉 All about Code and Ruby

• 🧰 Gems, Libraries, Tools and Updates

• 🤝 Related (but not Ruby-specific)

• More content: 📚 🗞 🎧 🎥 ✍🏾

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🚀 Launches and discounts

🚀 Sandi Metz announced a special birthday celebration sale, offering significant discounts on her popular POOD-I course and 99 Bottles of OOP book. Hurry up and take advantage of this opportunity → https://sandimetz.com/birthday

🚀 Hanami launched a campaign to get funding for Hanami, Dry and Rom. Read the article and see if you can contribute to Hanami efforts to keep going:

🚀 Nicolás Galdámez launched an product to help spinning Kamal configurations with ease → Kamalify

🚀 RoRvsWild launched Read The Nice Manual, a new approach of reading documentation for Ruby, Rails and other gems. Here is also a blog post for this launch which is recommended to check it out: Read The Nice Manual. If you’re interested in contributing to this project, here is your chance to do it → rorvswild-theme-rdoc

🚀 Brad Gessler announced pre-order for his new course → Phlex on Rails

🚀 Bilal made a debugging tool for parsing Rails logs. For those who might be interested in this, he offer early-access to this app → Logman - Rails log debugging made easier

🚀 Mehdi Farsi launched Cash Contest - “Learn proven online income skills, land paying clients, and compete with members to improve, with quick answers in our private forum.“

📅 Events

📅 Ruby Europe announced a new meetup which will happen on June 24, Berlin. Hurry up and register here → Ruby + AI Meetup

📅 Irina Nazarova announced CFP are open for San Francisco Ruby Conference

📝 Submit your application right here → Call for Proposals SF Ruby

📅 Euruko shared they're creating something special for this year's event → https://2025.euruko.org

👉 All about Code and Ruby

👉 Stack Overflow launched their new survey Not just a vibe, the Stack Overflow Developer Survey is really here. Take the survey here and help Ruby be more present in this survey:

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💻 Code Samples

️💻 Hans Schnedlitz demonstrated how to build your own IRB commands

️️💻 Yaroslav Shmarov shared a code sample with insights from building a screenshot generator

️💻 Rosa Gutierrez posted a code snippet about Range#overlap? method

️💻 James Kerr shared a helper method for finding the number of days in a date range

Marco joined with a simple and clean approach for solving this problem 💡 

️💻 Ismael Celis shared a code snippet with some API endpoints using Ruby Rack router

️💻 Zeke Gabrielse shared a code snippet about how to safely add a NOT NULL column constraint to a large table

️💻 Devin Starks shared an interesting tip for displaying field-specific error messages

️💻 Brad Gessler shared a solution for a Turbo bug he ran into

️💻 Hans Schnedlitz shared a code snippet about Bundler inline

️💻 Ruby Cademy demonstrated how to use ‘ActiveRecord::SpawnMethod#merge’ to intersect relations and simplify complex Rails queries

️💻 Joey Wang shared a code snippet about monkey-patching ActiveRecord's PostgreSQL adapter

️💻 Ruby Cademy posted a code snippet with a nice usage of case/when

💻 Hans Schnedlitz shared an interesting Neovim configuration for switching between StandardRB and RuboCop

📐 Thinking about Code Design

️📐 Xavier Noria shared aboutt Misc #21385: Namespace: Suggesting a rename - Ruby

📐️ Hans Schnedlitz showed how running “rails stats” provides statistics about your project

His community replied with their statistics 📈 

️📐 Charles Oliver Nutter implemented a optimization for JRuby

️📐 Joel Drapper demonstrated how to see your literal property type signatures on hover

💡Around code (news, findings, books, and more - all about Ruby)

💡 Xavier Noria celebrated an amazing milestone, 500 million downloads for Zeitwerk 🥳 

💡Jorge Manrubia shared what editor they are using to build the next ActionText

💡 Josh Pigford asked his community for Rails + Postgres app deployment solutions

His community replied with the following:

This is an interesting one 🤖 

Here are other solutions mentioned in this post:

• Heroku

• Railway

• AWS

• DigitalOcean

• Kamal

• Capistrano

💡 Max Bernstein shared an amazing achievement, he is now a Ruby committer 🥳 

💡 Ruby On Rails announced a new documentation PR is ready for community review. The PR can be seen here → [RF-DOCS] Move PostgreSQL Guide into the API and other guides

💡 Josef Strzibny shared his database survey results, revealing strong demand for SQLite with Kamal

❤️ Why Choose Ruby and Rails

❤️ Judge.Me posted their appreciation for Rails. Judge.me is now the newest Core member of the Rails Foundation 🚀 

❤️ Steven Gharms published an article about Ruby Gem Naming: The Art of Delightful Obscurity

❤️ Ruby Central published a new article about Company Spotlight: How Persona Scales High-Stakes Identity Systems With Rails

🧰 Gems, Libraries, Tools and Updates

🆕 New Gems and Repos

🆕 Thomas Leitner made a new gem → versadok - “Versatile document creation markup and library“

🆕 Ebi You announced a new gem → flow_chat - “Rails Framework for building conversational interfaces on USSD and WhatsApp with interactive flows“

🆕 Alex Larra published a new gem internator - "Internator is a Ruby-based CLI tool that automates iterative pull request improvements using OpenAI's Codex. It cycles through objectives, makes incremental changes, automatically commits and pushes each update, and optionally waits between iterations."

🆕 Cameron Dutro announced a new gem camertron/weft: A tool for providing block-level context to Ruby programs in a thread-safe and fiber-safe way

🧰 Updates

🧰 Avo announced a new release v3.21.0. For more details of this release, we recommend to check out this blog post → v3.21.0 - A few enhancements, bugfixes and new Avo 4 experiments

🧰 Carmine Paolino announced a new version of ruby_llm - “Stop juggling AI SDKs! RubyLLM offers one delightful Ruby interface for OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Bedrock, OpenRouter, DeepSeek, Ollama & compatible APIs. Chat, Vision, Audio, PDF, Images, Embeddings, Tools, Streaming & Rails integration“. He also wrote a blog about this release in case you want to get more information → RubyLLM 1.3.0: Just When You Thought the Developer Experience Couldn't Get Any Better 🎉

🧰 Stephen Margheim announced an update for chaotic_job - “👾 Resilience test helpers for Active Job“

🧰 Mario Alberto Chávez announced a new version of rails-mcp-server - “A Ruby gem implementation of a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Rails projects. This server allows LLMs (Large Language Models) to interact with Rails projects through the Model Context Protocol“. For this release, is available a blog with more in-depth details which is worth checking out → Rails MCP Server: Enhanced Documentation Access

🧰 Stephen Margheim announced a new version for litestream-ruby - “Litestream is a standalone streaming replication tool for SQLite. This gem provides a Ruby interface to Litestream.“

️🧰 Joel Drapper released a new version of literal - “Literal provides a set of tools to help you write more expressive, confident Ruby, reduce your error rate and get more mileage out of your existing tests by validating input“

🤝 Related (but not Ruby-specific)

🤝 Nate Hopkins shared his perspective about microservices and complex enterprise solutions

🤝 Chris Blunt shared a code sample about using ‘!override‘ modifier in Docker Compose files

More content: 📚 🗞 🎧 🎥 ✍🏾

🗞 Newsletters

🗞 Rails published a new edition of their newsletter → Improving Rails 8 week after week

🗞 Ruby Weekly published a new article about Benchmarking common Ruby and Rack servers

🗞 Ruby Central published a new edition of their newsletter → The Ruby Central README: May 2025

🗞 Women On Rails Newsletter - International Version published a new edition about Newsletter WoR #62: building a website without a framework, managing your manager, CSS carousels...

🗞 Awesome Ruby Newsletter published a new edition about Issue 472 - BASIC interpreter in Ruby

🗞 AnyCable published a new edition about Any Cables Monthly #29: Laravel Cable

🗞 Hotwire Weekly published a new edition about Week 23 - Custom Path Configuration Properties, new action_text-trix gem, and more!

🎧 Podcasts

🎧 Code and the Coding Coders who Code it published a new podcast episode → Episode 51 - Chris Oliver

🎧 Brendan Buckingham published a new podcast episode → Rails Business - Adrian Marin of Avo

🎥 Videos

🎥 Chris Oliver published new videos:

• How to use Enumerable with Ruby Classes

• How to use action_text-trix with Rails

🎥 Irina Nazarova shared a new video → SF Ruby Meetup at Chime, June 4, 2025

🎥 Joe Masilotti published a new video → Hotwire Native Live episode #2

🎥 Dave Kimura published a new video → Episode 513 - Kamal 2 in Github Actions | Drifting Ruby

✍🏾 Articles

What’s new 🆕

🆕 Ruby on Rails published a new article about Judge.me joins the Rails Foundation as a new Core member

🆕 Peter Zhu published a new article about Implementing Embedded TypedData Objects

🆕 Tim Riley published a new article about Become a Hanami, Dry and Rom patron. Help us build a diverse future for Ruby.

🆕 Kirill Boychenko published a new article about Malicious Ruby Gems Exfiltrate Telegram Tokens and Messages Following Vietnam Ban

🆕 Amanda Bizzinotto published a new article about Implementing Semantic Search with Sequel and pgvector

🆕 Akshay Khot published a new article about Understanding the Render Method in Rails and about Redirects in Rails: Manual, Helper, and Internals

🆕 Ruby Central published a new article about Company Spotlight: How Persona Scales High-Stakes Identity Systems With Rails

🆕 Vishnu M published a new article about Understanding Queueing Theory

🆕 Edy Silva published a new article about What It Takes To Foster A Community Around Rails

🆕 Avo published a new article about Cloudflare Turnstile for spam prevention in Rails

🆕 Harrison Broadbent published a new article about Our production Ruby on Rails stack

🆕 Alexey Varfolomeev published a new article about What’s Next for RubyMine

🆕 Kevin Sylvestre published a new article about Exploring Common AI Patterns with Ruby

🆕 Daniela Baron published a new article about The Machines Finally Made Us Care About Documentation

How-TOs 📝

🆕 Dom Christie published a new article about Custom Path Configuration Properties in Hotwire Native iOS