Rails Start! How Makefile Helps Rails Developers

Rails Start! helps you quickly launch a Rails app on any operating system. Learn how I use Make and Makefile to organize fast setup and a convenient Rails workflow in this article. 👉 Read the full article

Intelligent Search in Rails with Typesense

Search is everywhere 🙌 Every app needs it eventually. Rails gives us tons of options, from simple ILIKE queries to pgsearch or Elasticsearch. This article shows how to add intelligent search in Rails using Typesense: powerful search engine, dead simple integration.

AIA inching closer to the 1.0.0 with the release of v0.9.20

AIA provides a concurrent multiple model LLM prompt execution environment. This release adds the ability to tailor each LLM or instance of an LLM by assigning a role. Now you can get responses based upon different points of view. No more yes men in your agent fleet. Read more

Veri v1.0: Minimal Rails Authentication Framework Now Stable

After months of development and testing, Veri has reached its first stable release! Read more

Common Ruby interview questions

Event-driven Modular Monolith: Strategies for keeping legacy Rails apps maintainable.

A quick overview of some of the non-standard patterns we use in our 8+ year-old codebase:

Buckle Up, There’s a New Gem Server in Town: gem.coop

Most Rubyists are familiar with rubygems.org. The source at top of every Gemfile is so Bundler can download and install gems from the rubygems server. Interesting fact: source could be pointed at, well, anything! And today, we have a new community-minded gem server: gem.coop.

Omarchy

Omarchy is an omakase distribution based on Arch Linux and the tiling window manager Hyprland. It ships with just about everything a modern software developer needs to be productive immediately.

Supermail mailto links

This week I added a feature to Supermail that generates mailto hyperlinks:

Impractical Ruby Optimisations

The article explores performance tuning in Ruby through the lens of an event bus implementation for the Rage framework -

How to Read Code from the Showcase Ruby on Rails Engine

We are going to set up Showcase for a Rails application in the first part of this three-part series on Showcase:

How to elegantly update other UI when a Turbo Frame is updated

When a Turbo Frame updates, you sometimes need to also update UI elements that sit outside the frame but logically belong to it—like a menu, counter, or sidebar highlight. Before reaching for JavaScript, there’s a simple backend-only technique using a small helper that handles both full page loads and frame updates elegantly: How to elegantly update other UI when a Turbo Frame is updated

A delightful Toast component for your Rails apps - Rails Blocks

I built a delightful toast component for Rails inspired by the Sonner React project • Check it out here

How to Generate Random Numbers in Ruby

Run RSpec specs in parallel (with the parallel_rspec gem)

Easily run your RSpec specs faster locally by parallelizing them —

Rails Start! Starter kit for Ruby on Rails applications

Rails Start! is a solution built on Docker and Make that allows you to launch Ruby on Rails on any operating system in just a few minutes. The project has been updated and now supports Rails 8.0.3 and Ruby 3.4.6 + YJIT. “make rails-start” is the only command to start your journey to Ruby on Rails World!

Sinatra Tutorial: Building a To-Do Application

A step-by-step tutorial for building a Sinatra web application in Ruby. Covers routes, ERB templates, sessions, and REST principles to create a full CRUD to-do list app. Read more

How does Turbo listen for Turbo Streams?

It's Official! The Bullies Are Running The Ruby Community!

After reading Joel Drapper’s article “Shopify, pulling strings at Ruby Central, forces Bundler and RubyGems takeover” and Josef Simanek’s article “Why I leave Ruby Central”, there is no doubt left in the fact that Shopify is a mean opportunistic company and isn’t good for the Ruby community. They intentionally compromised the neutrality of RubyGems and Bundler for their own commercial interests.

SpellKit: Fast Typo Correction with Domain Protection for Ruby

SpellKit brings blazing-fast spell checking and typo correction to Ruby through native Rust bindings. Built on the SymSpell algorithm, it corrects user input at 16,000+ operations/second while preserving technical terms, product codes, and domain-specific terminology. Read more

Ruby Butler - cargo/uv-inspired tool for Ruby development.

Meet Ruby Butler — a cargo/uv-inspired helper to reimagine your gem & bundler experience. Now at your service (for free).

Rails Blocks: UI components for your Rails app

Rails Blocks is a ready-to-use collection of 230+ UI components with minimal dependencies and a focus on simplicity

Supermail: a better way to send email in Rails

I got annoyed at all the level of indirection in ActionMailer and created Supermail, which you can read about at . Each email is a plain ‘ol Ruby object that doesn’t have weird instantiations or params.

Components in Rails without gems

Quite often I work with various clients that don’t, or want, or can’t use a third-party library like ViewComponent or similar. In this article I want to lay out the various techniques I use for apps I started myself and for others that need more than vanilla Rails partials without relying on gems. Read more

The Complete Guide to Dev Containers in Ruby on Rails

From basic setup to advanced MCP integration: using Dev Containers for portable development environments that eliminate “works on my machine” problems.