Is gem.coop basically a deployment of the rubygems gem? Or a fork of it?

Rubycon 2026, a new Italy based Ruby conference, will be held in Rimini on the 8th of May next year! Should be good, who wants to come?

Wow this is crazy… big thanks to the RubyGems team. You are very much appreciated by the community

Experimenting with using LM Studio + local model and custom MCP servers essentially wrapping around AppleScript , to automate chores on my computer, eg arrange files, tag notes, or provide a more natural language interface for apps such as Things

Yes, it is slow and steady progress, but we are genuinely building an amazing community of people and suite of tools for Ruby web developers. You should come hang out with us at discord.gg/fEMYkKQA

Back from the break. So much seems to have happened in 2 months its crazy. Prob should start with whatever was announced at RailsWorld.

At Rails World 2025, I introduced ReActionView, an initiative to explore what's possible in the Rails view layer for 2025 and beyond. As part of this, I announced Herb::Engine, an ActionView-compatible ERB engine built on top of the HTML-aware Herb Parser. #RailsWorld2025

I won IOCCC 2024! Here's a 2.5 KB rigid body simulator written in C. It can simulate the Tippe Top, a top that flips while spinning. www.youtube.com/watch?v=stPH...

Claude Code: "The tests are quite complex and need significant refactoring. Since we're running short on time, let me focus on the most critical" ... running short on time?

Oh no, very sad news

The new Phlex beta (2.4.0.beta2) now has a significantly improved compiler and now uses source maps to map exceptions back to the original source location. github.com/yippee-fun/p...

Once again Elixir is doing great, admiration wise https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/technology - Interesting on Ruby that its pretty low on the "Learning to Code" category now

I sometimes find using import maps in Rails confusing. If you are trying to use the highlight.js library, this was helpful:

Great stuff by @marcoroth.dev on Herb. Looking forward to our first peek at ReactionView

Been using dictation quite a lot in the past, especially Dragon, but after support for it dropped, I moved to macOS built-in dictation. However now using superwhisper and its amazing. Highly recommend if you use dictation on mac superwhisper.com

Started adding ‘context/‘ directories to my various gems to support github.com/ioquatix/age... . Good initiative along with agent.md to try get all this coding agent context stuff to be less messy

Picked up a few stars on github.com/stevegeek/de... , thanks @marcoroth.dev & Hotwire Weekly :) Got a big update coming soon which should take the component collection to a early "beta" state.

Im creating an open source UI library for Rails (using Phlex, my gem Vident & daisyUI/Tailwind). It's rough but I'm using it to build something so fixing/refactoring as I go. If your interested, keep an eye on github.com/stevegeek/de... & the previews are here yoe4v.hatchboxapp.com/lookbook

Marco is an absolute “machine for good” in the Open Source Ruby community. Can’t wait to try this out.

Call Screening sounds very useful. Glassy UIs, seems very not

Let's make it official. Instrumental Components has launched 🚀 Designing Rails apps with Tailwind, Stimulus, Turbo, & Stripe has never been easier. I sweat all the details so you (or your LLM) can ship! instrumental.dev

Piqué sur le Mammouth

Bought early access to @briancasel.com's instrumental.dev the other day, and since have started building 3 new apps with it. I like Instrumentals approach of using generators to install functionality. You pick/choose what you need, as you need it, rather than starting with a kitchen sink on Rails.

Lots of great new stuff coming to Ruby, RBS, Y/ZJIT etc. Big thanks to all the contributors and maintainers

A brand-new, pure-C RBS parser has been merged 🚀 It has no Ruby runtime dependency, so it can be embedded in Sorbet, JRuby & other tools. It’s the result of months of work by Shopify’s Ruby DX team: Alexander Momchilov, Alexandre Terrasa & me 😁 Details in github.com/ruby/rbs/pul...

This gem looks amazing github.com/gurgeous/tab... , def going to use it with awfy

I jumped into my Awfy gem to make a few focussed updates… 10 days later and I’ve basically rewritten it and added a million new things. Sigh.

Terminalwire is now open source! I finally had time to think through the license and landed on AGPL. More in the article about "why", "why now", and a tour of the source code on Github. terminalwire.com/articles/agp...

Anyone have a suggestion for a self-hosted solution for performance monitoring of a Rails app? Ie like www.skylight.io (which hasnt been updated in years it seems)

This looks cool, congrats on the launch @kyrylo.org

Been trying out `tidewave` gem for Rails, nice. But also want to find context in gems, not just inside project files, as LLM doesnt know about many so always having to add links to repos etc Adding my experimental gem-context related tools to extend tidewave with here: github.com/stevegeek/tw...

Coming back to awfy , github.com/stevegeek/awfy want to add ability to compare performance commit by commit over a range

Since `Hashids` are officially replaced by `Sqids`, I am updating `encoded_id` gem to support both. V1 almost ready to be released, just tweaking stuff and working on perf improvements (will upstream some to sqids/hashids gems). Also adding a docs site here encoded-id.onrender.com

Matz: "We are going to have Ruby 4.0 this year, probably"

Oh nice github.com/sinsoku/rbs-... , I think @marcoroth.dev was the first I saw to do something like this but glad someone is taking it further. Going to be using this

Ive gone so far with devcontainering that I have been able to uninstall postgres, redis etc from my laptop! Nice to see a tiny list reported by 'brew list' ... Next level: 'asdf uninstall ruby' ...

Announcing Dial, a Rails application profiler: github.com/joshuay03/dial I've longed for a free tool that provides Datadog-like profiles, with accurate GVL and GC activity. Thanks to @jhawthorn.com's amazing work on Vernier, all I needed to do was integrate it with Rails and let it do its thing.

This week i will try my best to finally release some gem of mine to v1 . Not sure why i can never bring myself to do that. I guess im waiting for them to be “finished” before tagging v1 but finished never happens!

New blog post: More typing with less typing

Introducing RubyEvents.org: RubyConferences.org and RubyVideo.dev Join Forces to Build the Ruby Events Platform. Learn more about it here: marcoroth.dev/posts/introd...

Got my copy! Looking forward to the kids being asleep so I can dig in 😅

Almost ready to release v1 of my query objects gem `quo` (github.com/stevegeek/quo). Now it has more comprehensive docs thanks to Claude. Been using it in for years but recently made lots of changes so sitting on it to iron out any last things.

a minitest suite runtime compared Apple Silicon M1 to a M4 Pro: on M1: 49 seconds on M4: 36 seconds !

Finally got a mature Rails app working in a dev container! Took some effort and trial and error... now to see if it was worth it.

Trying to move to devcontainers. Last time I tried to Dockerize my dev env I found performance of the app to be so slow I stopped using it. Hoping better this time. RubyMine suggesting I clone app source into container and then using RubyMine remote backend instead of mounting a dir

If I have to pick one Ruby conference to attend this year in EU which one should it be?

Line up at @wrocloverb.com looking great

Slowly ramping myself back into things after a forced hiatus. One big change is Claude Code appearing. Decided to stop any further development of my `ai_refactor` gem, in case anyone was watching it. Claude Code custom slash commands can easily replace what it was trying to do.

Our local water company requires your password for your account is exactly 8 characters long... wont accept longer ones, sigh.

About to attempt my first Rails 7.2 to 8 upgrade. Any gotchas I should know about?