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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. https://andymaleh.blogspot.com/2025/09/its-official-bullies-are-running-ruby.html
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. [more inside]
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 https://beautifulruby.com/code/supermail-0-2-0 . Each email is a plain ‘ol Ruby object that doesn’t have weird instantiations or params.
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. https://www.rorvswild.com/blog/2025/dev-containers-rails
Rails Conferences Are Discriminatory, Unintelligent, and Hateful of Ruby in 2025
Rails Conferences Are Discriminatory, Unintelligent, and Hateful of Ruby in 2025 https://andymaleh.blogspot.com/2025/09/ruby-on-rails-conferences-are.html
Rails API Authentication with the auth generator
The Single-Page Application madness is a part of the past and Hotwire is the go-to alternative for interactive Rails applications. However, there are some use cases where building an API-only Rails app makes sense: mobile apps, teams that are comfortable with FE frameworks or multi-platform applications. In this article we will learn how to add user authentication with the Rails 8 auth generator in API-only apps. Full article on our tech blog: https://avohq.io/blog/rails-api-authentication-with-the-auth-generator
How to build agents (with llm.rb)
New blog post takes a look at how to build agents (with llm.rb).
Kickstart app template is back
A few years ago I hacked together some Ruby on Rails app templates and people seemed to like them. Then life happened and the project sat in the archive. Just brought it back to life — repo link’s here. [more inside]
Ruby Syntax
After building several startup projects with RoR, I wanted to sit down and understand Ruby syntax. Like what does it look like when you have time and not be limited by time pressure, or commercial forces. [more inside]
Glimmer DSL for Web Component Attribute Listener & Component Attribute Data-Binding
Glimmer DSL for Web (Frontend Framework for Ruby on Rails) version 0.7.2 & 0.7.3 add new samples to demonstrate the newly added features of Component Attribute Listener and Component Attribute Data-Binding [more inside]
More everyday performance rules for Ruby on Rails developers
A compilation of good practices to write optimized Ruby code that you can apply to any Rails application: https://www.rorvswild.com/blog/2025/more-everyday-performance-rules-for-ruby-on-rails-developers
Good Times in River City: Bridgetown 2.0 is Here!
Bridging the gap between static Markdown sites and fullstack database-driven application deployments, v2 of the Bridgetown web framework has long been in the hopper, and it’s chock full of major quality-of-life improvements and new defaults for a fresh approach to web development.
A devise extension to allow web3 login
Although, rails isn’t very popular for web3 apps. I thought it may be useful for some. Currently, implementing login with metamask is needlessly complex and tutorials aren’t very useful either. So, I thought I’d create an extension to allow it [more inside]
I've updated my RSpec with Rails book
Hello! I’m happy to share I’ve finally completed the latest edition of my book, Everyday Rails Testing with RSpec. Here’s what’s new. As always, it’s a free update if you’ve ever owned a copy via Leanpub. (There’s also a discount link in the article if you’re new to my work.) Thank you for your support over the years! https://everydayrails.com/2025/09/16/rspec-book-rails-7
Canonical URLs in Rails applications
Getting organic traffic is a nice and sustainable way to build a digital business. But if we’re not careful with the way we render our pages, we can harm our ability to gain traffic from search engines. The main issue with it is duplicate or near-identical content which can affect the way our pages are indexed and ranked. In this article, we will learn how to handle these cases properly using canonical URLs in Rails applications and some scenarios we might run into. Full article here: https://avohq.io/blog/canonical-urls-rails