Ruby Memes 2026-05-03: The Popularist

Ruby Memes 2026-05-03: The Popularist

Experiment: DSL for backend systems (APIs/models/workflows) → compiled services

I’ve been experimenting with a spec-first approach to backend development and was curious how something like this would fit into a Rails workflow. Read more

How to Build a Desktop App with Rails 8 and Electron

From Web to Desktop: Wrapping a Rails Hotwire App in Electron Very often I find myself… Read more

High ROI Testing: The 3 Secrets Every Solo Rails Dev Needs

Very often I see solo developers fall into one of two traps. Trap number one: They read a book on… Read more

llm_cost_tracker 0.7.2: Rails-native LLM cost tracking, now more production-ready

Released llm_cost_tracker v0.7.2 Read more

Rails-based SSG: Perron (1.0.0 released)

Perron is an OSS Rails-based static site generator I released 9 months ago and now hit 1.0.0. Read the announcement post https://railsdesigner.com/perron-1-0/, the docs https://perron.railsdesigner.com/docs/ and check out the repo https://github.com/Rails-Designer/perron ⭐

The Importmap Guide to Shadcn: Beautiful UI with Zero Build Step

How to Use Shadcn UI in Rails 8 (Without React or Webpack) If you have looked at frontend… Read more

Migflow: migration timeline, schema diffs and audit warnings for Rails

Migflow is a mountable Rails engine that adds a dashboard at /migflow with a visual timeline of all migrations, schema diffs between any two versions, an ERD graph, and audit warnings (missing indexes, unsafe null constraints, etc.). Also ships a CLI report for CI pipelines. Supports Rails 7+, Ruby 3.2+, and API-only apps. Read more

Ruby Gem Discovery: HighLine

I recently stumbled upon a Ruby gem called HighLine that simplifies basic command line input/output via an ask method and supports validation, conversion, and multi-choices.

Offliberty Ruby Gem and How It Works

💎 Meet GemChat - AI Chat with Ruby Gem

Ask any ruby gem questions in plain English (no docs spelunking) Read more

Ruby beyond the server 👇

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The Secret to Side-by-Side Gem Development in Rails

Stop Pushing to GitHub: How to Test Ruby Gems Locally Very often I find myself writing a… Read more

Stub responses to test code that interacts with RubyLLM

If you are using RubyLLM, but struggling to test code that interacts with an LLM, check out the new gem RubyLLM::Test. It makes it easy to stub responses as well as validate request parameters.

“Clever” code is overrated. Simple, understandable code wins.

Junichi Ito explains this clearly—I translated his article to English 👇 #ruby #softwareengineering #cleanCode Read more

The Language of the Web: HTTP Basics You Actually Need to Know

HTTP Basics You Must Know As A Web Developer Very often I see new developers build an… Read more

What took 1.5 months to build in React JS took 1.5 days in Glimmer DSL for Web Ruby

When I reimplemented a React component as the first Glimmer DSL for Web Component in my job’s Fintech Rails web app, I thought I did what would have taken 1 week in React in 1.5 days in Glimmer, which seemed like a great improvement in productivity at the time (333.33% the productivity if we count 1 week of React as 5 business days). I recently inspected the Git timeline of the original React component, and discovered that it actually took 1.5 months to develop initially!!!

Self-hosted LLM Cost Tracker for Rails – v0.5.3 Released

I’ve just released v0.5.3 of llm_cost_tracker — a lightweight, self-hosted gem designed to track LLM API costs directly inside Ruby and Rails applications. Read more

Bring your Bridgetown discussions to the Ruby Users Forum

Ruby on Rails link_to Method

Testing Spinel (from RubyKaigi 2026) in real conditions 👇

Idiomatic Ruby → breaks (chaining, constants) Explicit Ruby → works Complex logic → unstable Read more

Using native Rails rate-limits in production

Learn how to rate-limit your Rails controllers in production with Rails’ native rate_limit method.

Stop Using Ugly Browser Alerts: Custom Turbo Confirms in Rails 8

I’m building a really nice, modern Rails application. I use Tailwind to make the buttons look great,… Read more

Mustermann 4.0 released

For its 13-year anniversary, I’ve released Mustermann 4.0, the string pattern library powering Sinatra, Hanami, Grape, and others.

After RubyKaigi 2026, I came across Spinel.

After RubyKaigi 2026, I came across Spinel an experimental AOT compiler for Ruby by Matz. Read more