We have two tickets available for those who need a nudge to go to a cool and boutique Ruby conference. Just send me an email and I'll hook you up 🙌

Who else is curious about @palkan_tula’s “Rails X” keynote at the end of @sfrubyconf?

I love updates and transparency, but boy, the corporate speak in Ruby Central’s updates is hard to digest sometimes...

Guess who's got two free tickets to give away for the first edition of @sfruby.com? 👉 🙋‍♂️👨‍💻 👈 Just comment below the answer to this riddle to get a chance to get one. p [ [65, 118, 111], [105, 115], [116, 104, 101], [98, 101, 115, 116] ].map { |w| w.map(&:chr).join }.join(' ')

It's so nice to see open Avo apps. I love how @palkan_tula implemented the filter and actions inline with the resource. Also cool to watch @paolino's RubyLLM in the wild too. github.com/evilmartian... github.com/evilmartian...

Events should be fun to promote! That's what I thought when we started what became SF Ruby Clouds: cute personal invites for every conference attendee to have fun sharing them and spreading the word about the event. We're open-sourcing this project today! github.com/evilmartians...

Short Ruby Newsletter @shortruby.com edition 155 was published today! This edition is sponsored by undercover-ci.com, the Ruby coverage toolkit ready for the vibe coding era.

Dynamic avatars don't have to be boring initials on solid backgrounds. Learn how to generate beautiful deterministic mesh gradient avatars in Ruby using ChunkyPNG that give each user a unique, colorful avatar based on their data. avohq.io/blog/mesh-gr...

This just made my day! 🙏🏼 Open Source can be rough sometimes, but it's really awesome when people take the time to report how it works for them! Can't wait to see where Herb is going in the next few months! 🌿

Just shipped a guide on adding syntax highlighting to Rails apps. Covers multiple approaches for blogs, CMS, docs, and any app with markdown content. Plus some UX tricks that actually matter for developers reading code. Read the full article on: avohq.io/blog/code-h...

Last week, I released a huge update for Spot Squid that lets shops pre-book time slots for events. They completely sold out the event in a few hours! Was awesome having a chance to stop by the event and see everything humming along in person. "It was incredible. So smooth. Everyone loved it..." 😤

I can’t pretend to know what this feels like, but I stand with Andreea and everyone who’s been through this. Hang in there! We need to do better as a community 🙌 Thanks for publishing this

When debug queries in the console I often want to see the raw DB queries being made. Here's a quick little piece of code which will make those queries visible in the console.

I hade a nice chat with @jasonbosco about dev-tools, pricing, and the reservations that developers have about paying for tooling 🤷‍♂️

Who will I see at SFRuby in about a month from now?

Today is the last day to grab a GA ticket for SF Ruby! Read our new blog post for a preview: evilmartians.com/chronicles/w...

Sometimes you just need to quickly clear the cache when working in your development environment. Here's a quick snippet to make that easier.

Content-heavy sites need multiple assets per post—covers, diagrams, screenshots. But we often forget the most crucial one: Open Graph images. They're what users see before deciding to click. Here's how to auto-generate them in Rails with Ruby templates.

🌈 Passport update: We're working hard to making more of them and send them to conference and meetup organizers.

I believe in karma. What goes around, comes around. That's why, from time to time, you should give something back 🙌

It seems @typesense is really popular on Hacker News today 💪

I just had a cool chat with @AmandaBPerino about the conference season, the Ruby Triathlon, and most importantly, the new @therubypassport.bsky.social‬ 🛂

Hello World 🛂

Search is everywhere 🙌 Every app needs it eventually. Rails gives us tons of options, from simple `ILIKE` queries to `pgsearch` or Elasticsearch. This article shows how to add intelligent search in Rails using Typesense: powerful search engine, dead simple integration.

My basic solid queue setup on Rails 8 is using 450MB+ memory. Is that normal? supervisor: 74MB dispatcher: 83MB worker: 159MB scheduler: 141MB

Open to new adventures in code — #Ruby, #Rails, or #CrystalLang! 18+ years with Ruby, so my ducks are in a row and my #gems are polished. Let's build something great together. #RubyOnRails #CrystalLang #DevHire #OpenToWork #FediHire #DevJobs #TechJobs #JobSearch

One person at a time 😏 The Ruby Passport, coming to an event near you 🙌

The momentum of the Rails renaissance is incredible. SF Ruby is leading that charge right where it all started. We’ll be there showing off all the new work we’ve been preparing for everyone with a focus on enterprise and Rails at scale. You can’t and shouldn’t miss it 🙌

Guess who is running reactionview in production?! These guys! github.com/marcoroth/re...

The Ruby Passport. Coming to an event near you soon 🙌

It was so fun to have this chat and talk a bit about Ruby and Rails with the JS folks. Thanks for having me 🙌

It was an intense month, being involved with everything Ruby-related, and I loved every bit of it. Not that anybody is keeping tabs, but I’m on vacation until Oct. 6th. 🏝️ 🫶

Yup. Absolutely incredible sounds about right ✨

We’re going to be at SF Ruby to show the latest and greatest updates we brought to Avo. Who’s going to be there?

Friends, tickets for the San Francisco Ruby conference are on sale and available. Grab yours, and I’ll see you with 600 Ruby friends and dozens of Ruby startups to pave the bright future for Ruby and Rails together on November 19-21! sfruby.com

Such a great @euruko edition! Thanks @hencf and the team for putting in the hours and making an awesome event. Thanks Viana for being a fantastic location. Thanks everyone for being such lovely and friendly folks 🫶

It’ll be missed. Because it was so carefully curated. We do these things out of love.

Friendly.rb is taking a break. We've had quite a few questions about that and wanted to share them publicly. blog.adrianthedev.com/friendly-is...

We made it to Sarajevo. Euruko here we come!

What a great write-up of what Friendly.rb is 🙌

Fun fact about @friendlyrb.com - no matter how low social skills you have, you end up hugging with dozens of people and saying "see you next year" 🤗 Magnificent work @adrianthedev.com @lucianghinda.com @jakob.codefrwd.com @stefancosma.xyz @alexmarinescu.com 👏

Had a wonderful time at @friendlyrb.com. Met so many nice and interesting people, my mind and heart are full. Thanks to @lucianghinda.com, @adrianthedev.com, @jakob.codefrwd.com, @stefancosma.xyz, @alexmarinescu.com, and everyone else for making this happen! ❤️

One of my favorite talks at @friendlyrb.com yesterday was "Why doesn't Ruby have Boolean class?" by @okuramasafumi.com. Following his relentless journey down the boolean rabbit hole was super fun.

Trying my first self-grounded, self-poured coffee, having attentively followed @lucianghinda.com ‘s alchemical formulas.

Amazing energy and versatile talk by @hola-soy-milk.online @friendlyrb.com ❤️‍🔥

Loved, loved @hola-soy-milk.online ‘s talk on versatility at @friendlyrb.com ! What a legend! One of the best public speakers and communicators in the community, that’s for sure 🤩💖 also, she has the cutest laptop #goals

“Who here likes to make mistakes?” @hola_soy_milk at #friendlyrb

@adrianthedev.com @lucianghinda.com and the whole @avohq.io team have been incredible hosts. From cool talks, to city tours, to a coffee brewing workshop. @friendlyrb.com has it all ❤️

.@lucianghinda is showing us how to brew V60 aeropress coffee live on stage at #friendlyrb 😳

Kyle gave a fantastic talk about computing Fibonacci numbers with #Ruby at @friendlyrb.com last year and kindly agreed to turn it into this article. Enjoy, and have fun at #FriendlyRb if you're lucky enough to attend today. www.rorvswild.com/blog/2025/fi...