Short Ruby Newsletter - edition 165

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

🚀 Nauman Tariq and Ahmed Nadar launched Builtonrails.com - real data from real apps

🚀 Andy Leverenz launched RailsUI

🚀 Avi Flombaum launched vcmatch.ai - Find Your Perfect Investor

🚀 Kerrick Long launched RatatuiRuby - Ruby wrapper around Rust Ratatui

📅 Events

📅 African Ruby Community announced the call for participation. If you’re interested, check it right here → Ruby Conf Africa 2026

👉 All about Code and Ruby

👉 Roadmap.Sh created a new roadmap for Ruby

💻 Ruby On Rails announced a new version release → Rails Version 8.1.2

💻 Code Samples

️️💻 Elvinas Predkelis wrote an useful metadata concern

💻 Prem Sichanugrist was wondering about why this is not a syntax error

️💻 Robert shared about his recent learning:

️💻 John Nunemaker shared how to configure Conductor app for Ruby on Rails → bin_conductor-setup

️💻 Spencer shared a tip for Rails background jobs

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📐 Thinking about Code Design

️📐️ Robby Russell shared an unpopular opinion about Rails

️📐 Damian Galarza shared how Opus 4.5 is a great choice for Ruby coding

️📐 Nate Berkopec shared how AI Agents improved his ability to respond to OSS issues.

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

💡 Ryan Sherlock shared about Intercom deployment data:

💡 Dmitry Pogrebnoy posted an analysis about number of issues in Ruby tracker:

❤️ Why Choose Ruby and Rails

❤️ Mark Hesketh shared his current tech stack

❤️ David Heinemeier Hansson talked about the beauty of Ruby in the AI era

He got some replies:

❤️ علي فاضل | Ali Fadel shared about Ruby on Rails activity:

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🧰 Gems, Libraries, Tools and Updates

🆕 New Gems and Repos

🆕 Stan Lo announced a collection of skills for Ruby. Read the article at Ruby Skills: Teaching Claude Code About Ruby's Tooling And Ecosystem and download the skills from the Github repo at ruby-skills

🆕 Andrew Nesbitt created tui - “A terminal interface to your octobox inbox“

🆕 Fujitani Sora published a new gem → rfmt - “A fast Ruby code formatter build in Rust“

🆕 Avi Flombaum created a new plug-in for Claude Code → rspec-rails-plugin

Check the whole thread to learn more about them

🆕 Nathan Broadbent announced a new gem → logstruct - “Zero-config, type-safe JSON logging for Ruby on Rails apps“

🆕 Ted launched a new project debugger_replay - "Replay HTTP requests, ActiveJob jobs, ActionMailer deliveries, and Rake tasks with hot-reloaded code at debugger breakpoints."

🆕 Jakob Skjerning published a new project styr - Remote control your application without having to remember IP addresses or SSH commands

🆕 Scott Watermasysk published a new gem local_ci_plus - "Adds parallel execution, fail-fast, resume, and plain output to Rails' local CI runner."

🧰 Updates

🧰 TruffleRuby announced a new release for truffleruby

🧰 Carlos Antonio da Silva announced Devise v.5.0 which releases the RC from December:

🧰 Charles Oliver Nutter announced an update about jruby

🧰 Maciej Mensfeld announced a new release of shoryuken

🧰 Nate Berkopec announced a new release of puma - “A Ruby/Rack web server built for parallelism“

🤝 Related (but not Ruby-specific)

🤝 Simon Willison shared how to use Claude Code on IPhone with GitHub Pages

🤝 Kieran Klaassen shared Claude Code Multi-Agent Orchestration System

More content: 📚 🗞 🎧 🎥 ✍🏾

🗞 Newsletters

🗞 Ruby Weekly published a new edition → 784 - Rust's Ratatui comes to Ruby for building great TUIs

🗞 This Week in Rails published a new edition → Squish as fast as you can

🎧 Podcasts

🎧 Kieran Klaassen published a new podcast episode → AI talk with Avi, Nate and Kieran

🎧️ Coder Radio published a new podcast episode → RubyLLM with Carmine Paolino

🎧 Indie Rails published a new podcast episode → John Athayde - Guiding Design in Software

🎧️ reinteractive published a new podcast episode → Kinsey Durham Grace: Talking to a GitHub Copilot Developer

🎧️ The Bike Shed published a new podcast episode → The Bike Shed Ep 490: Large Language Misadventure

🎧️ Rails Business published a new podcast episode → Striving for Ideal Code

🎧️ Remote Ruby published a new podcast episode → Tool Standardization

🎥 Videos

🎥 Deanin published a new video about Absolute Beginners Guide to Ruby on Rails 8.1

🎥 Evil Martians published a series of workshop videos → San Francisco Ruby Conference 2025

🎥 Rhiannon Payne published a new video → Vibe coding a Rails travel app: Modeling travel preferences & frequency

🎥 Dean De Hart published a new video → Absolute Beginners Guide to Ruby on Rails 8.1

🎥 Mike Mc Quaid published a new video → The Most Important Skills Going Forward with CTO + Homebrew Maintainer Mike McQuaid [Podcast #204]

🎥 Evil Martians published the talks from SF Ruby 2025:

• San Francisco Ruby Conference 2025 - Main Stage

• San Francisco Ruby Conference 2025 - Black Box Theatre stage

🎥 GoRails published a new article about valid with Context

🎥 Matt Diebolt published a new video about Short code walk through some of the account controllers from Fizzy

✍🏾 Articles

What’s new 🆕

🆕 Amol Joshi published a new article about From Idea to Launch: Why Rails Remains the Ultimate MVP Framework in 2026

🆕 Jared Norman published a new article about Beware grpc gem and Ruby 4.0

🆕 Josef Šimánek published an article about Ruby::Box: Rethinking Code Reloading with Isolated Namespaces

🆕 Mary Lee published a new article about Crafting Code: Building a Ruby Pattern Generator for a Crochet Circle

🆕 Nemwel Boniface published a new article about What Happens When a User Deletes Their Account? A Guide to Rails ActiveRecord dependent: Strategies

🆕 Joe Masilotti published a new article about Hotwire Native deep dive: In-app purchases on iOS

🆕 Ryan Bigg published a new article about Beware grpc gem and Ruby 4.0

🆕 Jose Blanco published a new article about Code Audits in the Days of AI

🆕 Patricio Mac Adden published a new article about RubyLLM::Instrumentation: The foundation for RubyLLM monitoring

🆕 Robert Hopman published a new article about How to upgrade a ruby on rails application

🆕 Lyubomyr (Lou) Revechuk published a new article about Top 27 Ruby Developers and ROR Experts

🆕 Dennis Martinez published a new article about Leaving Heroku: Which Provider Should You Choose?

🆕 Matheus Sales published a new article about What Shoulda Matchers Is Actually Doing For You

🆕 Thomas von Deyen published a new article about In Rails 8.1 SQLite column order differs between platforms

How-TOs 📝

📝 Damien White published a new article about Riding Rails - Building a Web App (Part 03)

📝 Mary Lee published a new article about Crafting Code: Building a Ruby Pattern Generator for a Crochet Circle

📝 Julio Lucero published a new article about Getting Started with Vite on Rails

📝 Will Larry published a new article about A JavaScript developer's guide to Rails: Where Does Everything Come From?

📝 Simon Chiu published a new article about Building Smart Retry Strategies in Rails with Error-Aware Delays

📝 Rails Designer published a new article about Building optimistic UI in Rails powered by Turbo

Related ✍️

Sean Goedecke published a new article about How I estimate work as a staff software engineer

Julik Tarkhanov published a new article about We have to re-learn to walk alone