In this article, I explore the modern Ruby CLI stack — Thor, TTY Toolkit, and more —

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wreq-ruby: First production-ready Ruby HTTP client with TLS/HTTP2 browser fingerprint

We just open-sourced wreq-ruby, the first production-ready Ruby HTTP client with real browser TLS/HTTP2 fingerprinting. It emulates the exact signatures of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge, Opera, and OkHttp, so your requests pass as real browser traffic. Built in collaboration with the original wreq maintainer, powered by Rust with BoringSSL. Until now, Ruby had no production-ready solution for this. Pre-compiled native gems available for Linux and macOS.

Stop Using Net::HTTP: A Guide to Modern Ruby Requests

Ruby has a standard library for making web requests called Net::HTTP. It is famously terrible. The… [more inside]

Dear Future Me: How to Write Code You Won't Hate in 6 Months

The “I’ll Remember This” Lie We tell ourselves the same lie every day. “I don’t need to… [more inside]

Enclave: An MRuby sandbox for running arbitrary Ruby code from LLMs

is an mruby sandbox that runs inside Ruby. Why? Because maybe you want to expose tools inside the sandbox, like access to user data, but contain it so your agent can’t go crazy and do whatever it wants.

Ruby isn’t being rewritten in Rust — but Rust is already part of Ruby.

YJIT, the production JIT compiler included in modern Ruby versions, uses Rust to generate native machine code at runtime. It’s one of the most significant architectural changes in MRI in years, even if most developers never notice it directly. [more inside]

Seamless Postgres Indexing in Rails: The Case for Delayed Migrations

I published an article on how to properly add indexes with Rails, handling the creation of Postgres indices concurrently in delayed database migrations (after deployment).

Heroku: What's Next?

Stop Building Settings Pages: A Guide to Ruthless MVP Scoping

The Graveyard of Perfect Apps We all have a ~/projects folder filled with half-finished… [more inside]

While the spotlight has been on Ruby 4 and Rails 8, one critical piece of the ecosyst

Rack isn’t just another gem — it’s the interface that connects every Ruby web framework to the outside world. Every request, every response, every middleware chain flows through it. [more inside]

Ruby is not standing still — it is accelerating on multiple fronts at once.

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Ruby 4 isn’t just about experimental concurrency.

Sometimes the most important changes are the ones that reduce friction in everyday development. [more inside]

AI Assistance vs. Vibe Coding: The Two Modes of Modern Development

It is wild how fast things change. Just a few years ago, we were amazed that GitHub Copilot could… [more inside]

Making Encrypted Records Searchable

Rails’ encrypts directive is great until you need full-text search across those columns. You can’t query what the database can’t see — that’s the whole point. [more inside]

Ruby 4 continues to push the boundaries of safe parallel execution

Ruby 4 continues to push the boundaries of safe parallel execution — but the most interesting evolution may not be speed, but architecture. [more inside]

Where Does gem install Actually Go? Exploring the Ruby Filesystem

We type gem install rails or bundle install every day. Text scrolls down the screen, and suddenly we… [more inside]

Rkwalify Gem 1.4.0 released

Rkwalify gem (previously released as kwality) 1.4.0 released [more inside]

🪷 Mastering CMDx Workflows: Orchestrating Complex Business Logic

https://drexed.github.io/cmdx/blog/mastering-cmdx-workflows/ [more inside]

yet another decorator gem

Hey! I’ve created yet another decorator gem - It is lightweight, fast and not over-engineered :)

Ruby 3.4 introduces an experimental but potentially game-changing capability

Ruby 3.4 introduces an experimental but potentially game-changing capability: Modular Garbage Collectors. [more inside]

The Holy Trinity: Ruby, Bundler, and Gemfiles Explained

If you are coming from JavaScript (npm/yarn) or Python (pip/virtualenv), the Ruby way of doing things… [more inside]

AIA (AI Assistant) hits v1.0.0

I wrote the first lines of AIA three years ago. Back then it was just a front end to a Rust CLI called mods – it managed prompt text files and piped them into mods, which talked to OpenAI’s GPT. Today AIA handles 20+ providers and hundreds of models on its own. Prompt files are now markdown with YAML front matter, shell integration, and ERB. [more inside]

AI won’t replace developers.

Neither apocalypse nor utopia. Just reality. [more inside]

Ruby proxy for SQLMap and Websockets

I wrote a little post about how a small Ruby app can help to proxy SQLMap(or any other fuzzer) requests to websocket endpoints.

Ruby running entirely in your browser — no installation, no backend, just WebAssembly

We explored Rubox, a new experimental playground powered by Ruby WASM and TypeProf. Impressive concept, real limitations, and huge implications for the future of Ruby tooling. [more inside]