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.

👉 Read the full article: [more inside]

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]

The Solo Frontend Team: Building a UI System in Pure Ruby

The “Partial” Problem We love Rails. We love ERB. But let’s be honest: app/views is… [more inside]

Stop Killing Your Database: 5 ActiveRecord Tips for Faster Rails Apps

In this article, I want to share my journey with ActiveRecord. When I first started with Rails, I… [more inside]

Why I Ditched Manjaro for CachyOS (And I’m Never Going Back)

The “Manjaro Plateau” For years, Manjaro was my comfortable home. It was the “Arch for… [more inside]

SchnellMCP: Ruby native MCP server experience

Do you have, like me, a bunch of Ruby scripts that make your life easier? Why not make them available to your e-friends too? [more inside]

300 Days of RuboCop

It’s a story that begins with a pull request and ends with a Zen Buddhist saying:

Servactory – Typed service objects with declarative actions for Ruby

Ruby’s flexibility is great until every developer on the team writes service objects differently. After years of working with Rails codebases where each service had its own structure, error handling, and testing conventions, I built Servactory — a framework that standardizes service objects through a typed, declarative DSL. [more inside]

⚠️ A major shift in Ruby didn’t come with new syntax — it came with fewer assumptions

At RubyKaigi 2024, the Ruby core team revealed a long-term plan to shrink the traditional standard library and move functionality into default and bundled gems — a change that directly impacts dependency management, upgrades, and production stability. [more inside]