It's been released! github.com/st0012/cctop...

I had a calendar reminder set for this weekend, to think about Ruby on Trails for this year. I had originally hoped that I might be able to host a spring trip, but I think that was overly ambitious, with prep for Blue Ridge. Ha!

So, my tentative plan is another fall trip, September 2-6. (I wanted to be a couple weeks off from Rails World in Austin, which is September 23-24.) If you're interested in coming but aren't in our Slack group, just DM me!

I used Claude Code to build a tool for managing CC sessions. cctop sits in macOS menubar and shows real-time status of every session: idle, working, waiting for input, or waiting for permission. You can then one click jumping to the right VS Code/Cursor window. Link 👇

It's signed and notarized by Apple, so you can directly install and use it with: ``` brew tap st0012/cctop brew install --cask cctop ``` Or learn more in: github.com/st0012/cctop

I made a thing. Actually I’ve made a lot of things lately.

Idea: The Judoscale Platform Tour... We deploy our 3,000+ RPS Rails app across each of the fully-managed hosting platforms and write up our experience in detail. Things I'd want to cover: - cost - perf - DX/vibes - review apps - setup - env/secrets - scaling What else would you want to see?

Per @ufuk.dev's request, OpenCode support coming soon!

RubySchema has a new website and all schemas have been updated with improved documentation. www.rubyschema.org

I've compiled the Hotwire Club's compressed learnings into a concise set of 6 Agent Skills: 1. User Experience & Feedback 2. Forms & Validation 3. Navigation & Content Display 4. Real-Time & Streaming 5. Media & Rich Content 6. Stimulus Fundamentals github.com/TheHotwireCl...

If you're thinking of leaving Heroku, here's a simple mapping: If you want the easiest switch, go with Render. If you want Docker and more flexibility, go with Fly. If you want to be a sysadmin, use a VPS (don't need to scale) or Amazon ECS (do need to scale)

Stop manually switching to plan mode every single Claude Code session. There are two ways to set it as default: 1. You can edit your project settings or global settings at ~/.claude/settings.json to set this:

Which Agents, Claude md instructions, skills/plugins, or MCPs are you using to develop #Ruby on #Rails web apps with Hotwire? Let's share recommendations on setting up LLMs to work optimally with Hotwire.

Phew, what a relief! Codex 5.3 confirmed: I wasn't crazy for thinking, based on my manual testing, that there was a bug 😄

Undercover 0.8.4 just dropped with an important bugfix to coverage reported for branched statements spanning multiple lines ✨ github.com/grodowski/un...

Looking for your best articles/videos/podcasts on naming in Ruby. Or naming in programming in general. What are the timeless pieces you keep coming back to?

La #SibiuWebMeetup 53, @lucianghinda.com a vorbit despre testarea asistată de AI: ✅ AI-ul scrie codul, TU aprobi logica. ✅ Atenție la validarea „orbă”. ✅ Contextul face diferența. Vezi prezentarea: dub.sh/swm53-video

Sponsoring @shortruby.com this week again, with updated messaging. It's now easier than ever to produce thousands lines of code at speeds that make automatic review needed even more. Undercover guides your coding agent to write complete and higher quality tests.

Big shout out to undercover-ci.com the code coverage tool we use at @rainforestqa.bsky.social. It's always been great as a pre-release gut-check but lately it's become absolutely *essential* for ensuring our AI agent-written PRs have the coverage we require.

Super honored to be selected for the Gem Fellowship 🙏 I’ll continue pushing Herb forward as we get closer to 1.0 as part of this grant!

Announcing the winners of the 2026 Gem Fellowship! gem.coop/updates/2026...

As most people, I am figuring AI out. Not AI per se, but my related personal feelings. You won't grow as before. Can a junior develop seniority to review AI generated solutions? Maybe? To be seen. The builders are in a paradise, the thinkers... not as much fun. www.jernesto.com/articles/thi...

Here I have created a couple of gems as a foundation for creating more tools to support agents in Ruby. I know there are already packages in JS or other languages, but I wanted to have a couple of tools written in Ruby to be included in other (more complex) DX tools.

Anthropic published a study on how AI impacts skill formation in coding. The findings are depending on you are with AI adoption either surprising or not: Using AI for task completion doesn't help you learn better. Developers without AI scored higher on understanding tests.

Let me express how I feel about the future of AI/LLM through two well-known quotes: "So say we all" vs "To boldly go where no one has gone before"

Every week I curate what the Ruby community shares online. In the last few months, I noticed a pattern that looks a lot like what happened with TDD in the early days. The Ruby community is experimenting again. Or at least this is how it feels to me.

Just released RubyGems/Bundler 4.0.5. This is a scheduled bug fix release, including a fix for an issue where gems with multiple C extensions could not be built. blog.rubygems.org/2026/01/29/4...

tiny ruby #​{conf} will return on the 1st of October 2026!  More information to come, but for now you can sign up to receive email updates on our site: tinyruby.fi #tinyruby #ruby #conference #helsinki #finland

Here is OpenCode with GLM deciding to skip some tests because it couldn't make them pass. :) Let's talk about using generative AI to write test cases this Thursday, in person, at the Sibiu Web Meetup in Sibiu.

Does anyone have a good starter template for Jekyll + Tailwind and no build? #Ruby #Tailwind #Jekyll

Working on my presentation about AI-assisted, human-approved testing that I will deliver this Thursday at Sibiu Web Meetup If you are in Sibiu join here -> luma.com/ps4gax1s

Re-brand! One Man Band is now shellflow.dev As I build this tool, I'm spending most of my dev time in it. This means it's becoming less of just a worktree manager for LLM tools and more of a general-purpose terminal wrapper that includes workflow tools. Still iterating and discovering new uses!

hey folks, i’m a rails / ruby dev with a bit over 10 years of experience professionally and i was just hit with my second layoff. looking for a new role would love to chat! #rails #ruby.

Hey #ElixirLang & #Ruby fam, I got laid off this last Friday and am looking for the next adventure! If anyone has any opportunities, feel free to reach out!

Released One Man Band 0.2.0. It's now capable enough that I'm using it to build itself alongside another project. Terminal notifications, progress, task running, and of course worktree management. Now installable via brew (my tap, for now — check instructions). github.com/shkm/One-Man...

I'm actually surprised that this is not a syntax error in Ruby >> x = [foo: "bar", baz: "boo"] => [{foo: "bar", baz: "boo"}]

If you're writing API documentation, always specify units for duration parameters. Not just "timeout: 30" but "timeout: 30 seconds" or better yet name the parameter if you can "timeout_in_seconds"

Had good experiences using Conductor but wanted more simplicity. Worktrunk is nice but I miss some GUI. So I built my own! It's a GUI git worktree orchestrator, which works with #Claude or #Opencode or whatever. More features coming... github.com/shkm/One-Man...

@mackuba.eu if I want to search via API Bluesky for posts about Ruby, Ruby on Rails and so on what would be the best way to think/approach this? I don't want to get the entire feed locally but to seach via API maybe and then tag them?

🎤Meet our next speaker: @byroot.bsky.social — Senior Principal Engineer @ Intercom, Rails & Ruby Core team member, Ruby Prize 2022 finalist. With 10+ years on large Ruby apps, he’s a long-time committer shaping the community. 🗓️ 15-16 May, 2026 📍 Sofia: balkanruby.com/talks/32

TruffleRuby kicks off the year with a new website, a new release, and a blog post to go with it! 🎉 truffleruby.dev/blog/truffle... Many changes: * New versioning * Thread-safe Hash * No system dependencies anymore * Installs in 2 seconds * Development is now fully in the open

If you're using LLMs with a skill for #Ruby on #Rails projects to generate commit messages, could you help me with a few links? I've tried some general resources, but I'm curious if there are any specific ones available or if I should create one myself.

Working with LLMs means reviewing way more diffs than before. I discovered delta a while back and this was such a huge improvement to working in a terminal and having amazing syntax highlighting for diffs

New blog post: When ActiveRecord and Arel aren't cutting it, sometimes raw #SQL is all you need. I built AppQuery to make that experience better — with CTE inspection, ERB templating, and proper type casting. www.gertgoet.com/appquery.html #Ruby #RubyonRails

Ruby isn't dying, it is already dead. So is every other language. Rejoice, you have been liberated! You no longer write Ruby for The Man, but yourself! Reclaim the means of production as the means of amusement! Ruby was created to make you happy, not the machine. Wrest back your joy!

Ruby 3.2.10 has been released. ruby-lang.org/en/news/2026... This version applied past CVE fixes and fixed build errors and issues with OpenSSL 3.6.0. Ruby 3.2.x will be released with same fixes in March and will reach EOL, so please plan to update to 3.3/3.4.

Currently in ActiveJob, `wait` in `retry_on` accepts a proc, but it is only handed the execution count. I think access to the error can also be useful when calculating the next wait time. If you agree, give it a like! github.com/rails/rails/...

We have folks from five different countries coming already for this event. Sign up today, come over and have a blast! I’m organizing! You won’t regret it. luma.com/yl6v0cy9

If you're still thinking the #Ruby ecosystem is slowing down, this new edition of @shortrubynews will change you mind. This edition is sponsored by @undercover_ci - "the Ruby coverage toolkit ready for the vibe coding era" Here are some highlights from the newsletter:

What is the common advice on how to handle .kamal/secrets for an open-source Ruby on Rails web app? Do you commit it as it is by setting it to read from environment?