Short Ruby Newsletter - edition 171

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Table of Contents

• 🚀 Launches and discounts

• 📅 Events

• 👉 All about Code and Ruby

• 💼 Jobs

• 🧰 Gems, Libraries, Tools and Updates

• 🤝 Related (but not Ruby-specific)

• More content: 📚 🗞 🎧 🎥 ✍🏾

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🚀 Launches and discounts

🚀 Nick Schwaderer launched an interesting game → Raindrops

📅 Events

📅 RubyCon Announced the full agenda at https://rubycon.it/schedule/

👉 All about Code and Ruby

👉 Nagachika announced the release of Ruby 3.4.9

👉 Marco Roth announced a new version of Herb - read all the details at What’s new in Herb v0.9

👉 Mike Perham announced Sidekiq in the terminal

👉 Shopify developers launched a new project rubydex - A high performance Ruby indexer

👉 Edouard Chin, Eileen Uchitelle published an article about Faster bundler

👉 Robby Russell published a new article about Claude Code for Semi-Reluctant Ruby on Rails Developers

👉 David Heinemeier Hansson launched basecamp/once: Easy self-hosting for Docker-based web apps

Writebook is also now released as open source under MIT licence at https://github.com/basecamp/writebook

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💻 Code Samples

️💻 ️RoRvsWild shared a code sample a custom made Rack::Inflater

💻 John Nunemaker shared how you can enforce types and provide failures for API endpoints via Dry-rb

️💻 Kevin Newton a code sample with some parser tests that shows a lot of interesting things about Ruby syntax:

️💻 Michael Koper shared a code sample about how form builders are great for AI:

💻 Code Dude shared a code sample showing how to use Ruby http server:

📐 Thinking about Code Design

️📐 Stan Lo shared about upcoming IRB features (see the PR here)

️📐️ Vladimir Dementyev shared some insights about Whop’s RSpec test suite

️📐 Jorge Manrubia shared about his experiment about using agents to fix UI issues

️📐 Mario Alberto Chávez shared about their project called Maquina Generators: From rails new to Production-Ready

❤️ Why Choose Ruby and Rails

❤️ Jochen Lillich shared about how easily is to express what the intention of the code is in Ruby

❤️ Mario Alberto Chávez shared about why he strongly believes in Rails

❤️ Ruby Central shared stories of Why I ruby → You can submit yours using this form

💼 Jobs

This is a new section curated by Raul from CalmCompanies.club 

• Algrano

  • ‼️ Application instructions: Upload your resume to autofill the application form or fill in details about yourself, your experience, your engineering background, and how you think about problems.

  • Full Stack

    • Full-Stack Engineer (Salary not specified) - Remote or Algrano HQ Zürich - Apply

• Apple

  • Backend

    • Senior Software Engineer - Backend (Developer Publications) ($171,600 - $302,200) - San Diego, California, United States - Apply

    • 🆕 Senior Software Engineer - SWE Program Tools ($139,500 - $258,100) - San Diego, California, United States - Apply

  • Full Stack

    • Full-stack Software Engineer ($147,400 - $272,100) - Cupertino, California, United States - Apply

• beehiiv

  • Full Stack

    • Senior Software Engineer, Ad Solutions (global) (USD 165,000-185,000/annual) - Remote - Apply

• Better Stack

  • Full Stack

    • /^Full-?stack Engineer$/i ($60K - $300K/year + equity) - Remote (NAMER) or On-site (Prague, Czech Republic) - Apply

• BuildKite

  • ‼️ Application instructions: Fill out the application form with your name, email, resume, and cover letter.

  • Backend

    • Senior Engineer (Pipelines) (Salary not specified) - Australia, New Zealand - Apply

    • Senior Engineer (Test Engine) (Salary not specified) - Australia, New Zealand - Apply

  • DevOps

    • DevOps Support Engineer ($95,000-$125,000) - Remote US - Apply

  • Security

    • Staff Security Engineer ANZ Region (Salary not specified) - ANZ Region - Apply

  • Platform

    • 🆕 Senior Engineer (Compute & Agents) (Salary not specified) - Australia, New Zealand - Apply

• Circle

  • ‼️ Application instructions: Fill out the application form with your name, email, resume, and cover letter.

  • Infrastructure

    • Senior Back-End Software Engineer, Infra ($130K - $140K) - Remote - Apply

  • Full Stack

    • Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer, Applied AI ($130K - $140K) - Remote - Apply

    • Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer, CRM ($130,000 - $140,000 USD per year) - Remote - Apply

    • Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer, Live ($130K - $140K) - Remote - Apply

    • Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer, CMS ($130,000 - $140,000 USD per year) - Remote - Apply

    • Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer, Growth ($130,000 - $140,000 USD per year) - Remote - Apply

  • QA

    • Senior Quality Platform Engineer ($120,000 - $130,000 USD per year) - Remote - Apply

• CompanyCam

  • ‼️ Application instructions: Upload your resume, a cover letter, and answer a couple of questions about the role and your experience.

  • Full Stack

    • Senior Software Engineer (Ruby on Rails/React) ($175k - $200k) - Remote US - Apply

• Mindful Chef

  • Backend

    • Rails Engineer (Salary not specified) - London HQ - Apply

• SerpApi

  • Send us your resume at [email protected]

  • Full Stack

    • 🆕 Junior Fullstack Engineer ($80K - 100K a year + profit share) - Remote - Apply

    • 🆕 Senior Fullstack Engineer ($150K - 180K a year + profit share) - Remote - Apply

🧰 Gems, Libraries, Tools and Updates

🆕 New Gems and Repos

🆕 Basecamp launched basecamp-cli - “Basecamp CLI and Agent Skills“

🆕 Benito Serna published a new article about md_record → “File-backed models for Rails. Similar to ActiveRecord but reads from markdown files with YAML frontmatter”

🆕 Kevin Murphy published a new gem simplecov-compare - “A way to compare two SimpleCov runs.”

🧰 Updates

🧰 James announced a new version of Mocha 3.1.0 → Format warnings consistently and include source location by floehopper · Pull Request #794

🤝 Related (but not Ruby-specific)

🤝 Tobi Lutke open sourced /autoresearch plugin for pi

🤝 Claude increased the context window to 1 million for Claude Opus and Sonnet

🤝 Jon Yongfook shared about AI impact on developers productivity:

More content: 📚 🗞 🎧 🎥 ✍🏾

🗞 Newsletters

🗞This Week in Rails published a new edition → Validate URI scheme in Action Text and more

🗞 Ruby Weekly published a new edition → Shopify's push to make Bundler and RubyGems faster

🗞 Matt Solt published a new edition → Ruby AI News - March 12th, 2026

🗞 Andrey Eremin​ published a new edition of → Static Ruby Monthly | Issue 14, March 2026

🗞 Andy Croll published a new edition → Group Repeated Options with with_options

🎧 Podcasts

🎧 Errol Schmidt published a new podcast episode → The Future of Rails in the Age of AI with Amanda Perino (Rails Foundation) - Technology For Humans | Podcast on Spotify

🎧 The Bike Shed published a new episode → The Bike Shed Ep 497: Diagrams we love

🎧 The Ruby AI Podcast published a new episode → CRMs Don’t Have to Suck: Rebuilding Business Software with AI and Ruby with Thomas Witt

🎧 Remote Ruby published a new episode → Heroku, Hosting, and the AI Era 

✍🏾 Articles

What’s new 🆕

Kasper Timm Hansen published an article about I quit Rails core 4 years ago, here’s what I’ve been up to

🆕 Julian Rubisch published a new article about Advanced Domain Modeling Techniques for Ruby on Rails – Part 1

🆕 Amol Joshi published a new article about Ruby Concurrency Beyond Fibers: Threads, Ractors, and True Parallelism

🆕 Sid Krishnan published a new article about How to navigate with Turbo Frames

🆕 Koichi Sasada published a new article about Fixing Hotspots and Coverage Gaps in One Shot with lumitrace and about Unearthing DRY Violations from Hotspot Data with lumitrace

🆕 Luis Moyano published a new article about A technical breakdown on how ShinyJsonLogic became the fastest JSON Logic gem around.

🆕 Zil Norvilis published a new article about How Hotwire Restored My Sanity in Web Development and about Why I Switched from RSpec to Minitest (Rails Default)

🆕 Giménez Silva Germán Alberto published a new article about Most developers associate Ruby with web applications, but Ruby can also run inside em

🆕 Alex Piechowski published an article about How I Audit a Legacy Rails Codebase in the First Week

How-TOs 📝

Rails Designer published a new article about Video Preview on Hover with Stimulus

Javier Cervantes published a new article about Guide to deploy a Rails app (in less than 10 minutes)

Ryan Bigg published a new article about From Heroku to Render

Related ✍️

David Copeland published a new article about pwa.support and the Mediocre State of PWAs

Karol Bąk published a new article about Your website’s next visitor is an AI agent

Greg Molnar published a new article about You are (probably) validating passwords wrong