We are back for the second day of @balkanruby.bsky.social! @marcoroth.dev kicks off the agenda with some hot takes about Hotwire and Herb. P.S. We found Nick! 😁 #Ruby #Rails #RubyFriends

🦸‍♂️ Marco saves the (second) day! Welcome @marcoroth.dev! Our final speaker comes with a talk about "HTML-Aware ERB: The Path to Reactive Rendering". Join us for incredible two days starting tonight! Get your ticket: balkanruby.com/talks/45 #RubySpeaker #RubyCommunity #RubyConference

The Ruby Developer Experience team at Shopify has just launched Rubydex, a building block for indexing and (semantically) querying your Ruby codebases. @vinistock.bsky.social has a write up explaining what it is and how it works here: railsatscale.com/2026-05-12-o...

Friday May 8th in Rimini was magical. We spent months imagining Rubycon 2026. Then the day came, and it became real. This video tells that story. Thanks to everyone who was there. #Rubycon2026 #Ruby

The Rubycon afternoon continues with our fantastic speakers. #Rubycon2026 #Ruby

Amazing to see that #rubycon2026 officially ended two days ago and people are still hanging out together on Discord and visiting Bologna and Venice. This is such a great attitude! (photos are from yesterday's tour of Rimini)

Really exciting to see Herb being adopted at GitHub! 🌿 Over the past months, the GitHub team has been running Herb across one of the largest Rails codebases out there where Herb helped uncover real issues missed by existing tooling while also providing invaluable feedback. 🙌

So, Chrome's "web standard" Prompt API: Mozilla: Opposed WebKit: Opposed Microsoft: Several concerns W3C TAG: Several concerns Developers: Mostly negative Chrome: Ships anyway. A sad time for web standards. But, I guess someone at Google will get promoted, so 'every cloud…'

I wrote about Blue Ridge Ruby 2026, which I didn’t realize how much I needed, and where I gave my second talk. @blueridgeruby.com microblog.thomascannon.me/2026/05/03/b...

April has been the busiest month for the the Ruby community so far with 6 events! This month, we welcomed 9 new contributors and merged 40 PRs from 22 total contributors. ❤️ We have several new CFPs, including the RailsWorld CFP! Get the full scoop: www.rubyevents.org/announcement...

Oh my gosh, the town is growing! 😍

Really appreciate the opportunity to present all the RDoc improvements we made at #rubykaigi Here are my talk’s slides: st0012.dev/talks/2026-0...

In celebration of RubyKaigi I released Herb v0.10 today! 🌿 It ships with new primitives and provides the foundation that we need to build out production reactivity in ReActionView! Along with a new Diffing Engine and ActionView-specific static analysis!

RubyKaigi is happening in Miyazaki next year, Apr 14-16, 2027! 🙌🏼 #rubykaigi #rubykaigi2026 #rubykaigi2027

github.com/matz/spinel #rubykaigi #rubykaigi2026

It's always great to hear about @marcoroth.dev's progress in the #ERB and #Herb domain. #Ruby #RubyKaigi #RubyLang #RubyKaigi2026

Good Morning RubyKaigi! #rubykaigi #rubykaigi2026

It's just a proof of concept, but this is how I wish Rust extensions for Ruby were written: github.com/tenderworks/...

Tokyo-bound for RubyKaigi next week! Looking forward to talk about the recent advancements in HTML-aware ERB and reactivity! #rubykaigi #rubykaigi2026

I had a really great time in Brazil, the people and the energy were really awesome! If you have a chance to visit Tropical on Rails next year I would highly recommend it! 🇧🇷🌴

Marco Roth maintains Herb and ReactionView, and created rubyevents.org. At Rubycon 2026 he'll talk about building an HTML-aware ERB rendering engine. Meet him in Rimini on May 8th. #Rubycon2026 #Ruby

@marcoroth.dev opened Tropical on Rails this morning by asking one question: what is a programming language? We could say before it was a syntax/shared grammar, a parser, and a compiler/interpreter. Now, it’s more of a full tool chain that’s built to truly integrate with other tooling. 🧵

I just released a new version of the Stimulus LSP that is now fully powered by the power and intelligence of the Herb toolchain! 🌿 I'm so happy that this finally came full circle. These features are initially what prompted me to start working on Herb!

On my way to São Paulo for @tropicalonrails.bsky.social this week! Looking forward to be back in Brazil! 🙌🏼 #tropicalonrails #tropicalonrails2026

Last month, we saw 89 contributions, including a revamp of meetups on the site, 3 new upcoming conferences, and 127 new videos! This month will be busy for the Ruby Community with 5 conferences coming up! Read more in the March edition of our monthly newsletter: www.rubyevents.org/announcement...

First Ruby LSP beta got released with partial migration to Rubydex 👀 github.com/Shopify/ruby... Indexing our Rails application (+ dependencies) currently takes 12s with Ruby LSP's internal indexer. Rubydex does it in 2s 💯 And I think it's even doing more work.

I just released Herb v0.9.3 🌿 Another big release with a lot of improvements and more stabilization work in the parser and the engine. Also, a lot of new linter features and a ton of new linter rules, thanks to @markokajzer.bsky.social!

Week 12/13 - Hotwire Native Calendar Bridge, TutorialKit.rb, and more!

I just released Herb v0.9.3 🌿 Another big release with a lot of improvements and more stabilization work in the parser and the engine. Also, a lot of new linter features and a ton of new linter rules, thanks to @markokajzer.bsky.social!

Shipped ruby_llm-contract v0.5 — contracts for LLM quality in Ruby. Which model? How much? Did that prompt tweak break accuracy? Schema + validations, eval against test cases, compare models by score & cost. Start cheap, auto-escalate when quality drops. github.com/justi/ruby_llm-contract

Great news everyone. The Avo 4 Open Beta is ready for testing 🚀 Read more about that on our announcement and keep an eye out on the status page. avohq.io/blog/avo-4-... avo.cool/avo-4-status

Haggis Ruby's is in just over a month, in the wonderful city of Glasgow! Get your tickets here: haggisruby.co.uk We're lucky to have an incredible list of speakers from across the community. If you want an idea of what the talks are like, videos from 2024 are here: www.youtube.com/@HaggisRubys...

So great to see how you can utilize the Herb Linter Custom Rules to encode your custom rules and conventions for your own codebase. Thanks for sharing @janko.io! 🙌

As part of our migration from Slim to HTML+ERB at work, we're also replacing our legacy Bootstrap 3 usage with Tailwind/modern CSS. To make it official, I vibe-coded a custom Herb linter rule that disallows Bootstrap 3 usage – gist.github.com/janko/e0e106... Like, we actually have tooling now 🙌

[ENG] Speaker confirmed! Rachael Wright-Munn is joining Tropical on Rails 2026 in São Paulo! 

 [PT-BR] Speaker confirmada! Rachael Wright-Munn estará no Tropical on Rails 2026 em São Paulo! 

 tropicalonrails.com/rachael-wri... 

 #TropicalOnRails #RubyOnRails

So @jcn.bsky.social rescued some old GORUCO videos from 2010 and 2011 that I just posted up on rubyevents.org, including this killer talk from @sandimetz.bsky.social: www.rubyevents.org/talks/less-t... Enjoy the old school vibes!

herbaceous 🌿 https://herb-tools.dev/blog/whats-new-in-herb-v0-9

Herb 🤝 Stimulus LSP

Super excited to share that I'm speaking at RubyKaigi 2026 next month on "HTML-Aware ERB: The Path to Reactive Rendering". Looking forward to see you in Hakodate! #rubykaigi #rubykaigi2026 rubykaigi.org/2026/present...

Ruby 4.0.2 Released www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2026... This is a routine update that includes a bugfix in YJIT for NoMethodError on Puma. We recommend upgrading your Ruby version at your earliest convenience.

Week 09/10/11 - Understanding importmap-rails, Herb v0.9, and more!

I recently wrote a #ruby gem to compare two SimpleCov runs: simplecov-compare. I wrote up a long-form post on my blog about why and how it works. kevinjmurphy.com/posts/announ...

Now that Herb v0.9 is out, we can start advancing the tooling around `<%= render %>` calls, find unused partials, and build up a graph to understand which partials are referenced from which views! This is also going to be very essential for reactivity.

Now that Herb v0.9 is out, we can start advancing the tooling around `<%= render %>` calls, find unused partials, and build up a graph to understand which partials are referenced from which views! This is also going to be very essential for reactivity.

Herb v0.9 is here! 🌿 This release focused on stability, compatibility, and deepening Herb's understanding of HTML+ERB templates. Featuring Action View helper support, Prism AST nodes, new linter rules, a faster linter CLI, new language server features, and engine bug fixes. 🚀

Damn Marco, this is looking great. Seeing your vision for Herb take shape has made me completely re-think views, components and HTML in Ruby.

Action View tag helpers can get confusing when you're trying to figure out what the exact HTML output will look like. The Herb Language Server can now show you what they evaluate to on hover, and convert between tag helpers and HTML in-place with a single click.

Action View tag helpers can get confusing when you're trying to figure out what the exact HTML output will look like. The Herb Language Server can now show you what they evaluate to on hover, and convert between tag helpers and HTML in-place with a single click.

How do we feel about Inlay Hints in HTML+ERB files for closing tags? I'm torn, but the good thing is that most editors allow to disable Inlay Hints if you don't like them. Is this something people would want to use Inlay Hints for? I'd love to hear your opinion!

I got to work on another thing that has been bothering me for a long time: toggling comments in HTML+ERB files. Sadly the Language Server Protocol doesn't support this with a dedicated request, but you can implement it using a custom request plus a small config in the editor.