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The Ultimate Ruby Scraping Stack: From Nokogiri to Ferrum
Web scraping in Ruby isn’t a “one size fits all” task. If you use a headless browser for a static… [more inside]
The Faster Way to Scrape: Finding "Hidden" APIs in Modern Websites
The Headless Browser Trap If you want to scrape a modern React or Vue website, the… [more inside]
WSDL 1.0 — A modern SOAP toolkit for Ruby
I just released wsdl, a Ruby gem for working with SOAP services. It parses WSDL 1.1 documents, lets you inspect operation contracts, build requests, and invoke operations. [more inside]
Building High-Performance Ruby with Native Extensions
Ruby is often used as the orchestration layer while native libraries perform heavy computations. [more inside]
The SaaS Architecture Guide: How to Handle Multitenancy in Rails Routing
Most Rails developers stop learning routing after resources :posts. But if you are building a SaaS… [more inside]
libgd-gis: a native map rendering engine for Ruby.
Generate maps, tiles, and heatmaps from GeoJSON using libgd. [more inside]
I’ve just released v0.3.0 of ruby-libgd, a Ruby binding for the GD graphics library.
This update expands image processing capabilities with several new filters. [more inside]
The Missing Macro: 3 Ways to "belongs_to :through" in Rails
The Missing Link If you’ve spent more than a week with Ruby on Rails, you’ve probably used… [more inside]
The Magic of lvh.me: Testing Rails Subdomains in Development
The /etc/hosts Headache If you are building a SaaS that uses subdomains (like… [more inside]
Storing multi-valued enum fields in ActiveRecord
Rails’ enum DSL is great for single values, but what about multiple? We compared 4 approaches across performance, extensibility, and maintainability to find the best fit.
Using Minitest::Spec in Rails? Watch out for the lifecycle hooks!
After picking up Minitest for one of my retainer clients, I’ve had confusing errors in our test suite for a while. Turn out Rails is kinda cheeky when it comes to properly integrate Minitest::Spec.
Why I Stopped Using Docker in Development
The Industry Standard Trap If you look at any “Modern Web Dev” tutorial, Step 1 is almost… [more inside]
🇯🇵 RubyKaigi 2026 is approaching this April
🇯🇵 RubyKaigi 2026 is approaching this April — and it may quietly define the technical direction of Ruby for the year ahead. [more inside]
Optimizations
In this episode, we look at a few different ways of improving the speed of a page. There are many paths to take. Some of them leaves a lot of optimizations on the table, whereas others are premature and adds complexity.
TDD is a Luxury: Pragmatic Testing for the Solo Developer
The Dogma vs. The Deadline If you spend any time in the Rails community, you’ve heard the… [more inside]
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).