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Remembering Piotr "chastell" Szotkowski
More than 8 months later, I finally managed to put some thoughts about the passing of my dear friend Piotr into a post: Remembering Piotr “chastell” Szotkowski>
🗺️ Introducing MapView: Server-Side Map Rendering for Rails
No more external APIs. No more rate limits. Generate maps directly from your Ruby server. Read more
Stop AI Spaghetti: Enforcing Rails Architecture in 2026
We are fully in the era of autonomous coding. If you use tools like Cursor, Windsurf, or Copilot… Read more
How to Fix N+1 Queries in Rails Like a Pro
There are Rails applications that run incredibly fast on a developer’s laptop, but the moment they… Read more
Introducing ractor_queue: A Shared Queue for Ruby Ractors
This post introduces ractor_queue v0.1.0, a bounded, lock-free, Multi-Producer Multi-Consumer (MPMC) queue that is always Ractor.shareable?. It is the missing primitive for building Ractor-based pipelines, worker pools, and concurrent data processing in Ruby. Read more
llm.rb v4.13.0 released
llm.rb is a runtime for building AI systems that integrate directly with your application. It is not just an API wrapper. It provides a unified execution model for providers, tools, MCP servers, streaming, schemas, files, and state. See the CHANGELOG this release.
Exploring a less common area in Ruby: geospatial + map rendering.
Built a small stack to turn GeoJSON → maps server-side (Rails-friendly). Feels like there’s still a lot of unexplored space here. Read more
Building a World-Class Search Engine in Rails with Searchkick
Stop Using SQL LIKE: A Step-by-Step Guide to Elasticsearch in Rails When you build a… Read more
Mastering Regular Expressions in Ruby
Regular expressions (regex) are powerful tools for pattern matching and text manipulation
re2 2.27.0: concurrent matching without the GVL
A new version of the Ruby bindings to RE2, a “fast, safe, thread-friendly alternative to backtracking regular expression engines like those used in PCRE, Perl, and Python” is now out and releases the Ruby Global VM Lock when performing matches. Read more
The Easiest Way to Add Drag and Drop to Your Rails App
Building Drag and Drop in Rails 8 with SortableJS and Importmaps Very often I find myself… Read more
🗺️ MapView: Static maps for Rails. No JavaScript. No frontend. Just Ruby.
Render beautiful GIS maps directly from your views using libgd-gis + GeoJSON. Read more
AdonisJS vs Ruby on Rails: Which MVC Framework Wins?
Very often I see JavaScript developers getting tired of building backend APIs with Express.js…. Read more
Rabarber v6: Major Update for the Rails Authorization Gem
Rabarber, a role-based authorization gem for Rails, releases v6.0.0. The new version finalizes the API cleanup started in v5 and reworks the caching mechanism to improve reliability and fix a bug that prevented Rabarber from working correctly with Memcached.
Practical CSS: simplifying UI code with pseudo-classes
When a small UI interaction gets tricky, it’s easy for Stimulus/JS to end up full of class toggling that’s really just presentation logic. This article is for that exact situation: it walks through a real tag-input widget and shows which CSS pseudo-classes can handle states like “empty,” “single item,” or “show/hide controls,” so your JavaScript can stay focused on behavior. Practical CSS: simplifying UI code with pseudo-classes
Tired of heavy map libraries? We were too.
MapView generates static PNG maps from Rails—no JavaScript bloat, no frontend complexity. ✅ Pure Ruby ✅ PostgreSQL/PostGIS ready ✅ Lightning fast rendering Read more
The Git Commands I Run Before Reading Any Code
Five git one-liners I run on every new codebase before opening a file. Churn hotspots, bus factor, bug clusters, commit velocity, and crisis patterns. The post covers what the output actually means and how I use it to decide where to start reading. Framework-agnostic, works on any repo. Read more
Become a Founding Sponsor of the Ruby Users Forum
We’re building the Ruby Users Forum, a growing community focused on knowledge sharing, collaboration, and continuous learning. Read more
DragonRuby Game Toolkit lets you write commercial games in Ruby
DragonRuby Game Toolkit lets you write commercial games in Ruby that run on: ✅ Switch, PS5, Xbox ✅ Steam Deck ✅ iOS, Android, Web ✅ Raspberry Pi Read more
The Ultimate Guide to Universal Linux Apps: Snap, Flatpak, and AppImage
Very often I find myself remembering the “bad old days” of Linux. If you wanted to install a simple… Read more
Dear Heroku: Uhh... What’s Going On?
If you’ve been following any of the recent Heroku announcements…
No more slow SQL logs. No more hung test suites.
The latest Rails updates fix two of the most annoying bugs in development and CI. Full breakdown on RubyStackNews.com Read more
Guard rails, not gatekeeping
I’ve written an article about how I make it simpler for new developers to contribute to projects, rather than throw up barriers to keep people out.