Rapid UI Development: Top 4 Component Kits for Solo Rails Devs

I remember the days when building a professional-looking dashboard in Rails meant spending a whole… Read more

Andy's Laws of AI in Software Engineering

Andy’s Laws of AI in Software Engineering:

We spend so much time chasing the big topics that we often overlook the things we use

A Rails request isn’t a straight line. Read more

How to Leverage PurgeCSS in Your Rails App for Faster Stylesheets

It’s common for Rails applications to serve massive CSS files filled with unused Bootstrap, Tailwind, or custom utility classes as projects grow. Read more

Polling for New Records

Websockets are great, but they are not always the right approach. In this episode, we will look at implementing a long polling for new records.

Fewer understand why prepend changes everything.

Most Ruby developers know include. Read more

Beyond Mocked Payloads: End-to-End Stripe Webhook Testing

If you’ve ever wondered whether your Stripe webhook handler actually works end-to-end (not just with mocked payloads), this walks through using Stripe Test Clocks and the Stripe CLI to simulate the full payment failure retry sequence locally, including a race condition that only showed up this way

HexaPDF 1.9.0 released, with support for HarfBuzz based text shaping

The latest release 1.9.0 of HexaPDF supports HarfBuzz based text shaping. Now complex scripts are rendered correctly. Read more

Sessions Are Not Server Memory

Rails makes session[:user_id] = 42 feel like a hash write, but CookieStore serializes and encrypts session data into a browser cookie. This article traces that pipeline, the 4KB cookie limit, and why sessions should carry identity instead of application state. Read more

Rails GuardDog: Advanced Security Scanner for Rails

Rails GuardDog is a new open-source security scanner for Rails that goes beyond tools like Brakeman. Read more

RubyConf has joined RailsConf & RailsWorld as an exclusive discriminatory conference

RubyConf has joined RailsConf & RailsWorld as another exclusive discriminatory unexcellent conference.

Every engineering team has a translator. I wrote the thing that translates

https://ezlogs.hashnode.dev/every-engineering-team-has-a-translator-i-wrote-the-thing-that-translates Read more

I gave a generic LLM access to Ruby documentation through RAG.

The hallucinations didn’t disappear. They changed. The most interesting failures happened when the model had the correct context and still answered incorrectly. Read more

Meet Mata: live reload for Rack Apps

https://railsdesigner.com/meet-mata/ and ⭐ https://github.com/Rails-Designer/mata Lightweight live reload for Rack apps (using SSE and idiomorph).

LLM Cost Tracker 0.12 — self-hosted LLM spend tracking for Rails

💎 https://rubygems.org/gems/llm_cost_tracker 📝 https://github.com/sergey-homenko/llm_cost_tracker Read more

RubyGems 4.0.13 and Bundler 4.0.13 are out.

The most notable addition is a new cooldown mechanism for newly published gems, helping reduce the risk of supply-chain attacks. Read more

Slides for RubyConf.AT 2026 Talk "Frontend Ruby on Rails with Glimmer DSL for Web"

My talk “Frontend Ruby on Rails with Glimmer DSL for Web” went well at RubyConf Austria 2026. Especially given that after the talk, Chad Fowler (the starter of RubyConf and famous book author of The Passionate Programmer, among other books) told me “good job”, and Obie Fernandez (a famous Ruby expert and book author of The Rails Way, among other books) told me he will try Glimmer DSL for Web because he doesn’t like React.js.

From Coder to Architect: How to Learn Rails When AI Writes the Code

I recently realized that the way I learned Ruby on Rails ten years ago is now completely obsolete…. Read more

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Composition: Building with Parts

Building complex objects in Ruby with composition and modules as roles, and knowing when each one beats inheritance for your design. Read more

How to Choose a Gem Wisely

Imagine this scenario: a developer added a pub/sub gem built on top of Sidekiq to handle background event broadcasting in your company’s Rails app. At the time, it was a huge win: instead of building a custom job orchestration system, they could drop in the gem, wire up a few events, and ship a feature in days instead of weeks. Read more

http_decoy — a real Rack server that runs inside your RSpec tests

Spin up a real WEBrick server in your test suite with a clean DSL. Define routes, validate request contracts, simulate failure scenarios, and tear down automatically. No VCR cassettes. No scattered WebMock stubs. Works with WebMock out of the box. Read more

Turning a generic LLM into a Ruby-LibGD expert, one correction at a time.

A real-world experiment in hallucinations, context, RAG, and why context is not the same thing as training. Read more

Build a SaaS App in Rails 8 is content complete

The book is content complete and is going through the process of making sure all the code samples, code ordering, etc is correct…along with some more grammer/editing. Check it out at:

Stop Using JS for Everything: Harnessing the Power of Pure CSS in 2026

I remember when building a simple dropdown menu or a sticky header required a library like jQuery…. Read more