Short Ruby Newsletter - edition 141

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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

🚀 Pete Hawkins has announced that IdeaPilot is now live

🚀 Phil Smy launched Rails Rescue Audit - “Upload your Rails files and get instant feedback“

📅 Events

📅 Euruko confirmed that “Matz”, Ruby's creator, will attend this year's event

📅 Matias Korhonen has announced that the Call For Papers is now open for tiny ruby #{conf} 

📅 Rails Conf announced a new round of open-source maintainers for Hack Spaces this year 

👉 All about Code and Ruby

🆕 Marco Roth released Herb Language Server along a Visual Studio Code extension. He also wrote a blog post on this release that might be interesting for you to read → Herb Language Server and Visual Studio Code Extension. If you want to download this extension, it is available here → Herb LSP

You can see in this video Marco shared an early version of the Herb formatter:

💡 Jorge Manrubia shared some new features added to the editor he is working on for a while ✏️ 

💻 Code Samples

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️️️💻 Devin Starks shared a tip to annotate routes.rb in your project

️💻 Ruby Cademy shared some insights on how to add database-level validation

️💻 Chris Oliver shared a code sample about Rails authentication

️️💻 Nate Hopkins shared how Ruby implicitly unpacks Array args in blocks

💻 Joey Wang posted a trick for handling duplicate UUIDs

️💻 Nate Hopkins shared a config trick for idiomatic modern formatting

️💻 Ruby Cademy shared a code sample about a Rails 7.1 feature → `config.autoload_lib(ignore:)`

️💻 Stephen Margheim posted a code snippet with a feature from Acidic Job Pro

️💻 Ruby Cademy shared how you can define Rails locales using a Ruby file instead of YAML

️💻 Devin Starks shared a code sample with ActiveRecord custom sorting using in_order_of

️💻 Ruby Cademy shared an interesting usage of bundler inline mode

📐 Thinking about Code Design

️️📐 Nate Berkopec shared an advice about Service Level Objectives

📐 Brad Gessler published a new video → Service Objects are a great way to add indirection to otherwise perfectly good Ruby methods

Michael Chaney replies with some insights on service objects

He got some replies:

📐 Postmodern discussed when NOT to convert Ruby methods to endless methods

He received some replies:

️📐 Kieran Klaassen shared a Claude tip: use bundle show to read gem source code directly instead of relying on documentation

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

💡 Ruby On Rails announced a new documentation PR → [RF-DOCS] Rails Plugin

💡 Devin Starks asked his community about which option is better for authorization in Rails

He got some replies:

action_policy - “Authorization framework for Ruby/Rails applications“

💡 Robby Russell asked his community about memorable Ruby gems or blog posts that impressed them

He got some replies:

Here is a list of other resources picked from this post:

• Moving on from React, a Year Later

• Learn Ruby: a resource list

• Concerns in Rails: Everything You Need to Know

• INTRODUCTION TO DDD IN RUBY ON RAILS

• Squirm::Rails - Easily use and manage Postgres stored procedures with Active Record.

• Active Storage Dashboard - A mountable Rails engine that provides a dashboard to view Active Storage data

• Geocoder - Complete Ruby geocoding solution

• LogBench - A terminal-based Rails log viewer with real-time monitoring and filtering capabilities

• Async Ruby

• Announcing a new gem for cursor-based pagination for ActiveRecord

💡 Kyrylo Silin announced a 100% discount on WeUseRails

💡 Yatish Mehta shared an interesting idea to bring back Rails Rumble. If you really like this initiative and want to make it happen, write a message to Yatish right on this post 👏 

❤️ Why Choose Ruby and Rails

❤️ Avi Flombaum put into perspective how easy is to manage a project made with Rails compared with a fullstack JS/TS app

🧰 Gems, Libraries, Tools and Updates

🆕 New Gems and Repos

🆕 Andres Chacon published a new gem oas_hanami - "OasHanami simplifies API documentation by automatically generating OpenAPI Specification (OAS 3.1) documents from your Hanami application routes. It eliminates the need for manual documentation, ensuring accuracy and consistency."

🆕 Joseph Schito published a new gem opal_stimulus - "Opal Stimulus provides a way to write Stimulus controllers in Ruby, leveraging the Opal compiler to convert Ruby code into JavaScript. This allows developers familiar with Ruby to use the Stimulus framework without needing to write JavaScript directly."

🆕 Brandon Hicks published a new gem called activerecord-duckdb - "Activerecord::Duckdb providers DuckDB database access for Ruby on Rails applications."

🆕 Burdette Lamar published a new gem webri - "Command-line utility for displaying Ruby online documentation"

🆕 JT Archie published a new gem called batchagg - "BatchAgg eliminates N+1 query problems when calculating counts, sums, averages, and other aggregates across associations by using correlated subqueries to fetch all aggregations in a single efficient database call."

🧰 Updates

🧰 Bozhidar Batsov (a.k.a. Bug) announced an update for rubocop - “A Ruby static code analyzer and formatter, based on the community Ruby style guide.“

🧰 J Ruby Dev Team announced an update → Update Ubuntu 2025-06-01

🧰 Charles Oliver Nutter has brought some updates on an older issue → jruby installation broken since 0.17.3

🧰 Julik Tarkhanov announced an update for stepper_motor - “Is a useful tool for running stepped or iterative workflows inside your Rails application.“

🧰 Brandon Shar announced new docs for using InertiaJS along Cursor or other AI coding agent → intertia-rails.dev - llms-full.txt

🤝 Related (but not Ruby-specific)

🤝 Nate Hopkins shared a Claude Code cheat sheet for configuration files

🤝 Gavin Morrice shared an interesting fact about refactoring

🤝 Nate Berkopec highlighted an important aspect of open source software: the community itself is what brings value to the software

More content: 📚 🗞 🎧 🎥 ✍🏾

🗞 Newsletters

🗞 Ruby Weekly published a new edition about The latest Ruby version usage stats

🗞 Hotwire Weekly published a new article about Week 25 - Herb Language Server, VS Code Extension, and more!

🗞 Sajjad Umar published a new edition about Ruby on Rails - June 2025

🗞 Ruby Gems published a new edition about May 2025 RubyGems Updates

🗞 Awesome Ruby Newsletter published a new edition about 💎 Issue 474 - Ruby on Rails Audit Complete

🎧 Podcasts

🎧 Code and the Coding Coders who Code it posted a new podcast episode → Episode 52 - Vladimir Dementyev

🎧 Brandur Leach published a new podcast episode:

• Matz 1/2: A single email sparked Ruby's growth! The experience as a missionary was the foundation for global success!

• Matz 2/2: tech-talk - The trajectory of Ruby's growth, Open-Source Software today, Matz's favorite languages, People of the Ruby community

🎧 The Rails Business Podcast published a new podcast episode → Jess Brown

🎧 Remote Ruby published a new episode → Unpacking Direct Routes and More

🎥 Videos

🎥 Brad Gessler published a new video → Service Objects are a great way to add indirection to otherwise perfectly good Ruby methods

🎥 Pete Hawkins published a new video → This New Cursor AI Feature Is WILD

🎥 Drifting Ruby published a new video → System Tests in Docker

🎥 Guillaume Briday published a new video → Smarter Rails apps with AI, how to use LLM in real life - Lyon.rb Meetup - 06/2025

✍🏾 Articles

What’s new 🆕

🆕 Avo published an article about Llms.txt file in Rails applications

🆕 Luan Gonçalves published a new article about The History of Ruby on Rails: Code, Convention, and a Little Rebellion

🆕 Stephen Margheim published a new article about CSS-only Star Rating Component with Half Steps

🆕 Peter Zhu published a research paper about Reworking Memory Management in CRuby

🆕 Hans-Jörg Schnedlitz published a new article about A Deep Dive into Solid Queue for Ruby on Rails

🆕 Paweł Dąbrowski published a new article about Migrating existing columns to be encrypted with Rails

🆕 Obie Fernandez published a new article about Introducing Roast: Structured AI Workflows Made Easy

🆕 Matt Solt published a new article about Ruby AI: Interview with Obie Fernandez

🆕 Ben Sheldon published a new article about The difference between Rails Plugins, Extensions, Gems, Railties, and Engines

🆕 Daniel Doubrovkine published a new article about Using Claude-Swarm to Upgrade Ruby Projects

🆕 Victor Shepelev published a new article about Notes on code, text, and war. Week 2: If code is text, then what?

🆕 Maciej Mensfeld published a new article about Karafka 2.5 and Web UI 0.11: Next-Gen Consumer Control and Operational Excellence

🆕 Avo published a new article about Passwordless authentication with the NoPassword gem

🆕 Nikhil published a new article about Ruby Include vs Extend: Understanding the Key Differences

🆕 Kane Jamison published a new article about The Ideal CMS Structure For Rails

How-TOs 📝

📝 Svyatoslav Kryukov published a new article about How to render Inertia pages as modal dialogs

📝 Akshay published a new article about How to Inspect the Sequence of Controller Callbacks in Rails

📝 Stefan Wienert published a new article about Bugsink - Deploy with Kamal

📝 Rails Designer published a new article about Auto-pause Video Player with Stimulus

Related ✍️

Jason Swett published an article about Abstraction != abstractness

Greg Molnar published a new article about Exploiting LLM chatbots

Julik Tarkhanov published a new article about GETting Conditionally - The Bare Basics

Akshay Khot published a new article about Working Effectively with AI as a Developer

Sean Goedecke published a new article about Everything I know about good system design