Short Ruby Newsletter - edition 144

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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

🚀 Alexandru Golovatenco launched railsblocks.com - a ready-to-use collection of 175+ UI components with minimal dependencies and a focus on simplicity

🚀 Oskars Ezerins launched their website about Ruby LLM benchmarks

Here is a snapshot of the top ones overall but there are different benchmarks there: Calendar, Parking Garage, School Library, Vending Machine.

📅 Events

📅 Ruby Conf Austria announced the new conference https://rubyconf.at:  

Call for papers are open until December 2025 → Submit your paper

📅 Jim Remsik announced a new special kind of events at XORuby.com. Read here about the motivation behind: Why I'm Taking Events on the Road This Fall

👉 All about Code and Ruby

👉 Gergely Orosz shared the tech stack used by Figma - it uses Ruby with Active Record:

👉 Ruby On Rails added new learning resources for beginners:

• Signup & Settings tutorial by Chris Oliver with the help of many other Rubyists

• Rails New Video Tutorial from Typecraft

• Whishlists guide - by Chris Oliver - currently WIP

💻 Code Samples

💻 JP Camara posted a thread about regex modifier with some code samples. You can read the whole thread or on Bluesky

💻 James Kerr shared a code sample about how well-organized Ruby can be

💻 Obie Fernandez shared his Claude Code hook config to run rubocop with autocorrect

️💻 Alessandro Rodi shared a tip for the seeding process in your Rails project

️💻 Victor Cobos shared a code sample about the usage of “.many?”

️💻 Ruby Cademy shared a code sample about how to generate a robust Static Model pattern

️💻 Landon Gray shared an intriguing code sample about succ 

📐 Thinking about Code Design

️📐 Vaughn Vernon shared his take on DRY

️📐 Moses Gathuku shared an interesting point of view on primary keys in Rails

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

💡Matheus Richard shared that there is an .epub version of the Rails Guides

❤️ Why Choose Ruby and Rails

❤️ Josh Pigford expressed his take on how easy Javascript developers would love Rails

🧰 Gems, Libraries, Tools and Updates

🆕 New Gems and Repos

🆕 Genadi Samokovarov open-sourced the code behind Balkan Ruby → balkan

🆕 Abdelkader Boudih announced a new gem → rails_lens - “Comprehensive Rails application visualization and annotation tool - precision optics for the Rails universe“

🆕 Ben Pickles published a new article about Introducing Decant - here is the Github repo at benpickles/decant

🧰 Updates

🧰 Samuel Williams announced a new version of rack - “A modular Ruby web server interface.“

🧰 Carmine Paolino announced a new versions 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.“

🧰 Joel Drapper announced an update for phlex - “Object-oriented views in Ruby.“

🧰 Mikkel Malmberg opened a new pull request for Rails → Add Copy as Text button to error pages

🧰 Brian Knoles announced a new version of inertia-rails - “The Rails adapter for Inertia.js.“

🧰 Carmine Paolino added Perplexity provider support to ruby_llm

🧰 Jeremy Evans brought updates for sequel - “Sequel: The Database Toolkit for Ruby“

🤝 Related (but not Ruby-specific)

🤝 Nate Berkopec shared his rules for LLM in development

🤝 Steve Krouse shared an interesting take on vibe coding. Feel free and check out the full post on X or the blog version of it → Vibe code is legacy code

🤝 Typecraft made a new course → Vim for Beginners: Your First Steps

🤝 Danny Postma shared his thoughts about indie hackers

🤝 Nate Hopkins shared some tips on how to get the most out of Claude Code

🤝 Xaden Ryan shared how to set up code completion in Neovim

More content: 📚 🗞 🎧 🎥 ✍🏾

🗞 Newsletters

🗞 Andrey Eremin published a new edition about Static Ruby Monthly | Issue 7, July 2025

🗞 Ruby Weekly published a new article about Implementing code reloading for Rack apps

🗞 Greg Molnar published a new edition of This Week in Rails about relative_time_in_words, current transaction's isolation level and more!

🗞 Women On Rails Newsletter - International Version published a new article about Newsletter WoR #64: a new Ruby framework, better design conversations, adapting your terminal...

🗞 Hotwire Weekly published a new edition about Week 31 - AnyCable for Laravel, How Hotwire Native works, and more!

🗞 Awesome Ruby Newsletter published a new edition about Issue 480 - Announcing Passive Queue: The Rails Background Job System That Transcends Processing

🎧 Podcasts

🎧 Ruby On Rails published a new podcast episode for OnRails→ Nadia Odunayo & Scaling Rails for Millions of Users as a Solo Dev

🎧 Ruby Central published a new podcast episode for the Ruby Gems Podcast → Evan Phoenix: From Rubinius to Ruby Central

🎧Remote Ruby published a new podcast episode → Rolling Out Features and Rails 8 Insights

🎧 Rails Business published a new podcast episode → Discussing Documentation

🎧 The Ruby Gems Podcast published a new podcast episode → Evan Phoenix: From Rubinius to Ruby Central

🎥 Videos

🎥 Samuel Williams published a new video → Running tests against Agent::Context documentation using Sus::Fixtures::Agent::Context

🎥 Tom de Bruijn published all videos from Amsterdam.rb Meetup → Amsterdam.rb videos

🎥 Blastoff Rails published an interview with Andy Croll → Interview: Andy Croll (Organizer)

🎥 Kasper Timm Hansen published a new video → Fast Tests, Clear Datasets with Oaken: for fixtures + factories + seeds.

🎥 Ken Greeff published a new video → Structured Output Just Landed in RubyLLM (And It's Sick)

🎥 Malachi Rails published a new video about Is Ruby on Rails Still Worth Learning in 2025? (Here's the Truth) and about The Easiest Way to Learn Ruby on Rails

🎥 Dave Kimura published a new article about Model Context Protocol

✍🏾 Articles

What’s new 🆕

🆕 Avo published a new article about Adding an MCP server to a Rails app and about Visual breakpoint debugging for responsive Rails applications with TailwindCSS

🆕 Ismael Celis published a new article about Identity and behaviour

🆕 Svyatoslav Kryukov published a new article about Simplicity, vanished?! Solving the mystery with Inertia.js + Rails

🆕 JP Camara published a new article about The /o in Ruby regex stands for “oh the humanity!”

🆕 Jon Sully published a new article about How Judoscale's Utilization-Based Autoscaling Works

🆕 Ruby Central published a new article about RubyGems.org Funding Model & A New Path For Community-Led Growth

🆕 David Morales published a new article about Persistent Connections in Ruby: Streaming Bodies, SSE, and WebSockets with Rack

🆕 Amanda Perino published a new article about New written & video tutorials for beginners

🆕 Kane Hooper published a new article about Easy Rails Maintenance: Avoid These 5 Pitfalls

🆕 Jean Boussier published a new article about What’s wrong with the JSON gem API?

🆕 Paweł Świątkowski published a new article about Micro-slices in Hanami

🆕 John McDowall published a new article about Service Objects Are Totally Fine Actually

🆕 Ender Ahmet Yurt published a new article about Bang Methods in Ruby: When to Use Them and When to Avoid Them

🆕 Edy Sylva published a new article about RailsConf 2025 Takeaways: It’s fun to have fun

🆕 Julian Rubisch published a new article about Build Custom ActiveStorage Analyzers for Ruby on Rails

🆕 Radan Skoric published a new article about Turbo adapter: Hotwire Native's backdoor entrance

🆕 Kane Hooper published a new article about Easy Fixes for 7 Common Rails App Security Risks

🆕 John McDowall published a new article about Service Objects Are Totally Fine Actually

🆕 Mintbit published a new article about A Quick Guide to Ruby’s tally Method

🆕 Amanda Bizzinotto published a new article about AI Agents: Implementing the ReAct Pattern in Ruby

🆕 Jakob Skjerning published a new article about Designing the API for a ViewComponent Input Group

🆕 Tuomas Jomppanen published a new article about Using Dispatch to communicate between Stimulus Controllers

🆕 Akshay Khot published a new article about Let's Configure a PostgreSQL Database Server for the Blog

🆕 Yatish Mehta published a new article about Ruby Refinements

🆕 Rails Designer published a new article about Add Konami Codes with Stimulus

🆕 Łukasz Reszke published a new article about Watch out for this one deprecation warning when upgrading from Rails 7.1 to 7.2 on Heroku

How-TOs 📝

📝 Avo published a new article about Adding an MCP server to a Rails app

📝 Lovro Bikić published a new article about Consistent MySQL structure.sql Diffs for Rails

📝 Jared Norman published a new article about Let's Get Baked

Related ✍️

🖋️ Rich Steinmetz published a new article about Asking good questions for your product development

🖋️ Jared Norman published a new article about Order-Driven Development

🖋️ Rich Steinmetz published a new article about [1/4] Code with LLMs and a PLAN and about [2/4] Code with LLMs and default instructions

🖋️ Dave Thomas published a new article about An Employer's Guide To Hiring Developers