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Healthy Snacks for Babies
Choosing nutritious snacks supports steady growth and energy. Options like yogurt, fruit slices, steamed veggies, and whole-grain crackers are popular. This topic encourages parents to share quick snack ideas that are both healthy and baby-approved. How often do you offer snacks? Do you avoid packaged snacks? Share creative, easy options. https://rubyflow.com
Meet Vessel: The "Scrapy" of the Ruby World
The Missing Piece In the Ruby scraping ecosystem, we have excellent low-level tools. … [more inside]
Testing the Unstable: How to Write Tests for Scrapers
The Scraper’s Dilemma Testing a normal Rails app is straightforward: you control the… [more inside]
The $0 Infrastructure: Launching a Rails SaaS for Free in 2026
The AWS Fear Factor The biggest blocker for many developers starting a side project isn’t… [more inside]
Your AI has no memory. Your Rails codebase does.
AI agents write code fast. They also write tech debt fast. How to you stop them from piling it up? https://rubyonai.com/your-ai-has-no-memory-your-rails-codebase-does
AI agents in Ruby: Why is it so easy?
We found two keys to answer this question while building a full-featured coding agent in just 250 lines of Ruby code. https://sinaptia.dev/posts/ai-agents-in-ruby-why-is-it-so-easy
Ruby Newbie is joining the Ruby Users Forum
We’re sunsetting Ruby Newbie and merging its content into the Ruby Users Forum. [more inside]
active_record_properties gem
Type-safe properties stored in JSONB for ActiveRecord models. A modern, lightweight alternative to separate settings tables. [more inside]
FixtureBot: the speed of fixtures with the syntactic sugar of factories
I got tired of reading about how RSpec + Factories are slow and watching everybody port their stuff to minitest and fixtures, so I tackled the “factories are slow” problem with FixtureBot and wrote about it at https://beautifulruby.com/code/fixturebot [more inside]
In many cases, latency is unavoidable — but poor user experience isn’t.
Modern Rails apps increasingly depend on external systems: APIs, background services, and AI/LLM inference. https://rubystacknews.com/2026/02/06/tackling-inevitable-i-o-latency-in-rails/ [more inside]
e2e gem
Unified, high-performance E2E testing framework for Ruby. [more inside]
[ANN] aws-sdk-extended first release (0.0.1)
aws-sdk-extended 0.0.1 has been released. [more inside]