Building Conference Talk Content

Did you just have a conference talk proposal accepted? Congrats! Are you building a presentation to share internally with your company? Awesome! Are you wondering what you do now that you need to turn the idea into a presentation? I share my process in my latest post. https://kevinjmurphy.com/posts/building-conference-talk-content/

Rails 7. Start Kit Loves Nginx (Release v2.1)

Rails 7. Start Kit is a dockerized Rails app with many preinstalled tools that could be launched on any platform in minutes. This weekend I’ve added Nginx to the kit. Since Release v2.1 you can play with Nginx out of the box. Happy coding!

ActionPolicy, GraphQL and Rails

Hi everyone, [more inside]

A Gentle Exploration of Object-Oriented Programming in Ruby

RESTful Routing in Rails for CRUD Operations

RESTful Routing in Rails for CRUD Operations

Rails 7.1 gives templates more control over the locals they receive

rubidity gem - ruby for layer (l1) contracts / protocols language machinery

Hello, as a follow up to rubidity-typed gem - “zero-dependency” type machinery for rubidity i have published the first rubidity gem itself (building on the rubidity-typed gem) that let’s you run rubidity contracts “off-chain” with plain old ruby interpreters. It’s still (very) early. I invite you to join the fun and let’s explore and learn together building a type (and contract / protocol blockchain) machinery in ruby.

Refactoring from feature specs to system specs

Lately I’ve been diving into the differences between RSpec feature specs and system specs.

re2 2.0.0: vendored RE2 & native gems

Following last week’s beta, version 2.0.0 of re2 (Ruby bindings to Google’s RE2 “fast, safe, thread-friendly” regular expression library) is now available from RubyGems. Unlike version 1, it no longer requires the underlying RE2 library to be installed separately as it is now vendored with the gem and precompiled, native gems are available for Linux, Windows and macOS. [more inside]

Talking to Hostile APIs

APIs allow us to communicate with third party software in order to use their services and data. In today’s software it’s almost impossible not needing to use one, one way or another. What if they are hostile? [more inside]

Exploring Ruby Warnings

We are used to checking the deprecation warnings displayed by Rails or warnings from different gems, but Ruby itself can also display warnings to help us find code that can be problematic. [more inside]

New Blog (for flipper/ruby/rails)

We’ve already posted on client side feature flags, how we added a free plan, and an awesome relay race to ship a new feature. I forgot to post here but will for future posts.

Using GPT-4 to implement UI changes

I wrote an article with 5 examples about how I used Cursor GPT-4 to ask for some UI changes and in general the response was good enough to be used.

Six Ways to Prevent Monkey-Patch Drift in Ruby

I recently wrote about the challenges of monkey-patching in Ruby. Specifically, how to ensure that patches don’t drift from the original code. In the article, I outline six strategies based on my experiences. [more inside]

A Joyful Dive into Best Practices and Error Types

Sqlite & Rails in Production

I contributed to a few gems to make the development experience of deploying Sqlite Rails apps to production as simple as possible and wrote about it at

Ruby 3.2 introduces Data, a new core class for immutable value objects

How to Improve Rails Caching with Brotli Compression

Caching is an effective way to speed up the performance of Rails applications. However, the costs of an in-memory cache database could become significant for larger-scale apps. In this blog post, I’ll describe optimizing the Rails caching mechanism using the Brotli compression algorithm instead of the default Gzip. I’ll also discuss a more advanced technique of using in-memory caching for extreme performance bottlenecks. [more inside]

Ruby goes to the movie theater: directing the refactoring of your application

This post introduces a method I use to refactor big applications. I want the process to happen in a predictable manner and make sure that important things are addressed before others. One day I realized that there is a missing tool in my workflow, so I’ll introduce my new gem called rubocop_director.

When Should You Use Background Jobs? | Rubber Duck Dev Show 99

In this episode, we discuss when you should use background jobs:

Rauversion 🤘 The self-hosted music industries built on Rails 🤘

We’re excited to share this release with you all: a fresh take on music streaming platforms, reminiscent of SoundCloud and Bandcamp, but with some unique features that cater to artists, music enthusiasts, and event hosts alike. Built using the power and flexibility of Rails and Hotwire, we’re proud of what we’ve achieved and would love to hear your feedback! [more inside]

rubidity-typed gem - "zero-dependency" type machinery for rubidity

Hello, as a follow up to Rubidity - Ruby for Layer 1 (L1) Contracts with “Off-Chain” Indexer I have published the first “zero-dependency” rubidity gem. Let’s welcome the rubidity-typed gem bundling-up the “zero-dependency” type machinery incl. (frozen) string, address, uint256, contract and more for rubidity for easy (re)use and experiments. It’s still (very) early. I invite you to join the fun and let’s explore and learn together building a type machinery in ruby.

Rails 7. Start Kit — Windows, Linux, MacOS!

Rails 7. Start Kit - staring a new RoR app never been so easy! Run the only shell command and get a launched RoR app in 10 minutes! This is game changing project for development, learning and teaching processes in Rails ecosystem. Try it out right now! Happy coding! V2.0 Release Note

Using Cursor IDE to make changes to a Rails app

How I experimented with Cursor IDE to make some small changes to a Rails app

Celebrating 10 issues of the RailsNotes newsletter 🥳

I’ve published the 10th issue of my Ruby on Rails newsletter. Check it out!