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š¼ New Opal Stimulus walkthrough VIDEO!
A walkthrough video about Opal Stimulus, the gem that allows you to write Stimulusjs controllers in Ruby! [more inside]
Rails World 2025 Recap: Introducing ReActionView and `Herb::Engine`
The full recap of my Rails World talk introducing ReActionView and Herb::Engine is now live. šæ [more inside]
Exploring Ruby Algorithms for Fibonacci Numbers
So using Ruby, what is the largest Fibonacci number we can calculate quickly? https://www.rorvswild.com/blog/2025/fibonacci-ruby-algorithms
Rails World 2025 from a first time speaker perspective
Here is Rails World 2025 from a first time speaker perspective. My goal was to give a taste of the conference if you missed it and a different perspective if you were there.
Running Chromium in Docker? Read This First.
Do you use Chromium for testing or automation? Have you tried running it in a container, only to hit the dreaded ācap-add=SYS_ADMIN problem? Youāre right to think thatās a bad idea. The good news: thereās a safer way. [more inside]
DevOps on a Dime: DIY Docker Registry for ā¬2 a Month
TLS, Basic Auth, Fail2ban, Ansibleāall running on a micro-VM that costs less than your bubble tea. Because DevOps doesnāt need to be expensive. It just has to work. [more inside]
Laravel, Ruby on Rails, and NestJS: A Complete Framework Comparison
When building a modern backend application, developers often choose between established frameworks like Laravel (PHP), Ruby on Rails, and NestJS (Node.js/TypeScript). Each comes with a distinct philosophy, ecosystem, and developer experience. https://jsdev.space/howto/laravel-vs-ruby-vs-nestjs/
[Screencast] RubyMine
I havenāt used RubyMine in several years, but a recent announcement from JetBrains have now opened up access for free with non-commercial products. In this episode, Iām taking a fresh look at RubyMine after years of not using it. https://www.driftingruby.com/episodes/rubymine
Internator now works with the latest OpenAI Codex (v0.30.0)
Our beloved virtual intern, to whom we left our PRs in the hands of, just got up to speed. [more inside]
Fast sailing with persistent connections
I recently wrote a post that discusses an impressive optimization that has landed in llm.rb v0.16.0.
ParseKit: Native Document Parsing and OCR for Ruby
ParseKit brings native document parsing capabilities to Ruby through high-performance Rust bindings. Extract text from PDFs, Office documents, images, and more - all without external dependencies or shelling out to Python. [more inside]
Topical: Topic Modeling Pipeline for Ruby
Topical brings modern topic modeling to Ruby by orchestrating ClusterKitās clustering algorithms with c-TF-IDF term extraction. Discover meaningful topics in document collections without the complexity of managing multiple libraries. [more inside]
[ANN] httpx 1.6.0 released
httpx 1.6.0 has been released. [more inside]
Superform 0.6 video tour
On Friday I launched Superform 0.6, which came with some big updates. Today Iām launching the Superform video unit at https://beautifulruby.com/phlex/forms/introduction to give you a curated tour of the gem and how you can start using it in your Rails apps.
Awesome Ruby Blogs
Hello Rubysts! šļø Awesome Ruby Blogs now with RSS feeds and OPML files. If you have any ideas or suggestions for improving this list, please feel free to send a pull request. Thanks and have a nice day! š
Strong Service
šŖš¼ The best Service Object Ruby gem. https://github.com/shkm/strong_service
MCP on Rails
Learn how to integrate Model Context Protocol (MCP) with Rails to create AI-powered conversational interfaces that transform traditional web applications into intelligent, chat-based tools. https://sinaptia.dev/posts/mcp-on-rails
Rails S3 Direct Uploads
Active Storage has greatly simplified file uploads for Rails applications: it has become the de facto standard replacing alternatives that were dominant back in the day like Paperclip or CarrierWave. Out of the box, it comes with everything we need to handle file uploads, including cloud services like Amazon S3. In this article, we will learn how to add direct uploads to a Rails app using Active Storage. https://avohq.io/blog/rails-s3-direct-uploads
Superform 0.6.x released
Released a big update to Superform! Notes at https://beautifulruby.com/code/superform-0-6-x-released. Some highlights include much better Erb ergonomics, automatic strong parameters (the form does it!), HTML 5 helpers, and more.
AIA is Concurrently Multi-Model
AIA (AI Assistant) version 0.9.12 has been release. Its big new feature is concurrent models! Sent your prompts to multiple models at the same time-ish. In an Async process your prompt can go to many different models of your choiceāyou must have creds for all the providers. Why? well to compare responses; to generate a consensus; to have more than one robot in your chat sessions; to evaluate the way your prompt is handled by multiple models in a side by side comparison; because Iāve seen no one else do it on the command line and I thought it would be cool. [more inside]