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  Last Friday

GitHub Flavored Markdown in Rails with Commonmarker

If our users are moderately technical, allowing them to write Markdown instead of using a WYSIWYG editor can make them happier and more efficient. Ruby has several gems whose main concern is parsing Markdown. Each of these has a different approach to the problem, and implements a different Markdown specification. In this article, we will cover Commonmarker, a gem that implements the CommonMark specifications and adds support for GitHub-flavored Markdown, which some users prefer because of its feature set. https://avohq.io/blog/github-flavored-markdown-commonmarker

🧪 Writing Clean Tests with WebMock

Just published a new article breaking down how to mock external APIs in RSpec without sacrificing clarity or maintainability. Instead of relying on helpers or abstractions, I show how to use WebMock directly while keeping your test suite clean, expressive, and easy to reason about. [more inside]

Phlex on Rails video course

Launching a paid video course for using Phlex in Rails projects at https://beautifulruby.com/phlex. The plan is to work with the first 50 people who pre-order to fine-tune the curriculum to make sure I’m maximizing “what people want” and give them a nice discount for being an early supporter. I’ll be developing free content alongside it that I’ll be sharing as well in the coming weeks.

Hi Brad, The link is broken due to a trailing dot.

Shopify Has Been Bad for the Ruby Community in the Last 10 Years

Ever since I took over the Montreal.rb Ruby Meetup 3 years ago, Shopify, which has presence in Montreal (Quebec, Canada), hasn’t volunteered a single Ruby/Rails talk nor bothered to contact me to just say Hi and check if I need sponsorship or anything to demonstrate they care about the local Ruby community. Other companies with far less resources have reached out to me to offer talks or sponsorship though, so Shopify has zero excuses here. Shopify lost a lot of merit points because of this… https://andymaleh.blogspot.com/2025/06/shopify-has-been-bad-for-ruby-community.html

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