Short Ruby Newsletter - edition 155

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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

🚀 Bruno Sutic launched RailsBilling.com - Gem for Billing Subscriptions

📅 Events

📅 San Francisco Ruby Conference announced a great opportunity for student and recent graduates. There are still late ticket available if you want to join.

📅 Tropical.Rb announced the tickets sales for the 2026 edition. Book your please right here → Tropical on Rails 2026 | The Brazilian Rails Conference

📅 Rails Camp Usa is looking on sponsors for the next year event

👉 All about Code and Ruby

👉️ Ruby On Rails announced new releases. If you want to read more about that, check out the blog post → New Rails Releases and End of Support Announcement

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👉 Jean Boussier published a new article about Frozen String Literals: Past, Present, Future?

💻 Code Samples

️️💻 Felipe Vogel shared interesting insights about metaprogramming in Ruby:

💻 Janko Marohnić shared a code sample about implementing Go To Definition for render calls:

️💻 Adrian Marin shared a code snippet to help you debug queries in the console

️💻 Adrien Poly advised us to not hard-restrict Rails versions

️💻 Carmine Paolino announced a new params DSL change that supports full JSON Schmea via RubyLLM::Schema. For more details → Tools

📐 Thinking about Code Design

️📐️ JP Camara made a thread with some conclusion he got after reading How does Sidekiq really work?. You can read the whole thread on Skywriter

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

💡 Marco Roth shared an update about the new version of Herb v0.8.0

💡 David Heinemeier Hansson shared about deploying changes with Kamal

💡 Joe Masilotti announced a new bridge component → NFC Component

💡 A discussion on Reddit about what prevents more widespread adoption of Ruby/Rails. Read the replies there (129 at the moment of adding it to the newsletter):

🧰 Gems, Libraries, Tools and Updates

🆕 New Gems and Repos

🆕 Maciej Mensfeld open sourced his gem → llm-docs-builder - “Transform and optimize your markdown documentation for Large Language Models (LLMs) and RAG systems. Generate llms.txt automatically.“

🆕 Joshua Young announced a new gem → ractor-pool - “A thread-safe, lock-free pool of Ractor workers with a coordinator pattern for distributing work“

🆕 Cameron Dutro created a new gem → live_component

🆕 Paulo Arruda published a new gem → swarm - “Ruby gems for general-purpose AI agent systems: automation, research, data processing, customer support, content creation. SwarmSDK provides single-process orchestration, persistent memory with semantic search, node workflows, and hooks. SwarmMemory/SwarmCLI included. Claude Swarm v1 for dev teams.“

🆕 Gamage built a new gem → zaxcel - “A Ruby DSL for building Excel spreadsheets programmatically“

🆕 Scott Werner announced a new gem → touring_test - “A Cucumber extension to enable agentic computer use”

🆕 Abdelkader Boudih published a new tool called ore - Ore Light is the streamlined distribution of Ore – focused on fast gem installation, Bundler compatibility, and a welcoming feature set for new teams. It keeps Bundler in the loop while accelerating the painful parts with modern Go tooling.

🧰 Updates

🧰 Stan Lo made a new PR for rdoc → New theme: "Aliki"

🧰 Jeremy Evans announced a new version of sequel - “Sequel: The Database Toolkit for Ruby“

🤝 Related (but not Ruby-specific)

🤝 Dima Fatko shared a tip for CircleCI users

🤝 Lucian Ghinda made a thread about the implication of LLMs in writing tests. This is just a part of the thread, you can read it entirely on X

🤝 Steven R. Baker made a post about modern software practices

🤝 Planet Scale introduced a new plan → $5 PlanetScale

🤝 Igor Alexandrov shared how to copy data from one Docker volume to another

🤝 Robby Russell told his take on craftsmanship on the actual AI era

🤝 Claude shared that Claude Code’s native installer is now generally available

🤝 Adam Wathan reminded us that Tailwind CSS was released 8 years ago

More content: 📚 🗞 🎧 🎥 ✍🏾

🗞 Newsletters

🗞 Ruby on Rails published a new edition → Summary report on CI run and more

🗞️ Ruby Weekly published a new edition → Breaking the ice with frozen string literals

🗞️ Hotwire Weekly published a new edition → Week 44 - Debugging Bridge Components, Rethinking CSS with Roux, and more!

🎧 Podcasts

🎧 Pablo published a new podcast episode → 24 - on Misunderstood concepts in tech (sort of) with Steven and Dave

🎧️ The Bike Shed published a new podcast episode → 480: The President's Doctor with Jared Turner

🎧️ reinteractive published a new podcast episode → Technology for Humans: Ben Curtis

🎧️ Code with Jason published a new podcast episode → 272 - Anthony Eden, Founder of DNSimple

🎧️ Ruby Rogues published a new podcast episode → Inside the RubyGems Controversy: Transparency, Trust, and the Future of Ruby Central - RUBY 679

🎧 A Junior, a senior and I published a new podcast episode → 24 - on Misunderstood concepts in tech (sort of) with Steven and Dave

🎥 Videos

🎥 Brandon Weaver published a new video → Rocky Mountain Ruby 2025 - We Who Remember Magic

🎥 Rocky Mountain Ruby Conference published their video recordings from this year event → Rocky Mountain Ruby 2025

🎥 The Expert Bench published a new video → From Breaking PHP to Protecting Rails | Greg Molnar Story

🎥 Dave Kimura published a new video → Failover Requests

✍🏾 Articles

What’s new 🆕

🆕 Jean Boussier published a new article about Frozen String Literals: Past, Present, Future?

🆕 Pat Shaughnessy published a new article about Parsing: How Ruby Understands Your Code

🆕 Avo published a new article about Code highlighting with Rails

🆕 Szymon Fiedler published a new article about The Joy of a Single-Purpose Class: From String Mutation to Message Composition

🆕 Denis Lifanov published a new article about Migrating Whop from PostgreSQL to PlanetScale MySQL with 0 downtime

🆕 Julio Lucero published a new article about Middleware in Rails

🆕 David Morales published a new article about Testing in Ruby: From Scratch to Minitest and RSpec

🆕 This Week in Rails published a new article about New Rails Releases and End of Support Announcement

🆕 Ruby Central published a new article about Ruby Central Update Friday 10/31/25

🆕 Stuart published a new article about Targeting Hotwire Native with Tailwind

🆕 Julio Lucero published a new article about Middleware in Rails

🆕 Aaron Sumner published a new article about Everyday Rails is now Left of the Dev

🆕 Carmatec published a new article about Basics of Ruby's Redo, Retry and Next

🆕 Mateus Pereira published a new article about Sharing this in case someone is having similar problems as I did

🆕 Ashish published a new article about How to use .nil? .empty? .blank? .present?

🆕 Evgeny Zhdanov published a new article about You Don’t Need Types in Ruby

🆕 Brooke Kuhlmann published a new article about Hanami Logging

How-TOs 📝

📝 Adam McCrea published a new article about Dealing With Heroku Memory Limits and Background Jobs

📝 Jeffery Morhous published a new article about Kamal 2: Deploying multiple apps

📝 Rails Designer published a new article about Extending the Kanban board (using Rails and Hotwire)

📝 Visnupriya published a new article about How to Supercharge Your Rails App with MCP Server and Copilot for AI-Driven Translation

Related ✍️

✍️ Loïc Delmaire published a new article about How I use AI to code: a practical guide

✍️ Dennis Martinez published a new article about Using Kamal's Local Registry for Simpler Deployments