Simi just wrote up an announcement that he’s done cooperating RubyCentral and it’s another very important read in this whole situation. Notably, he confirms everything in Joel Drapper’s write-up that’s already been circulating and really puts Ruby Central on blast.

After listening to about a dozen first-hand accounts, I’ve published what I know about the RubyGems takeover.

TIL Minitest has a pride mode, so you can show your *fabulous* testing pride 🌈 Apparently, this has been a thing for forever; I just came across this now, digging through command line options. #rubyonrails #ruby

Great summary of the Ruby Central Drama over the last week. @joel.drapper.me may not be a professional journalist but he writes like one 👌

Catching up on Rails World talks 👀 Loved @ealpawels.bsky.social talk on MCP. Pretty motivated to add that to my next Rails app now 😁

I waste way too much time binging random crap on Youtube. If I need downtime, I might just as well watch something useful, right? I think I found a hack to help with that. Now I just redirect to RubyEvents and watch some talk 😅 #ruby

In case you missed it, browserslist now supports baseline out of the box. No need for `browserslist-config-baseline` anymore 👌 web.dev/blog/browser... #javascript

When considering any incident it is valuable to consider all perspectives and remember that at the end of the day we all love ruby and want it to succeed. apiguy.substack.com/p/a-board-me...

Ages ago, when I was still a student, I taught myself Ruby on Rails for my senior thesis and fell in love. Fifteen years later, and I’ve used Rails at every job I’ve ever held in the tech industry. Fifteen years, and I still love Rails! But there’s something rotten at its core, and we share a name.

I've done my best to summarize the situation and offer my initial thoughts here: skillissue.jardo.dev/archive/ruby...

oof, what a disappointing way to end more than 15 years of open source work. (summary by @duckinator.bsky.social at pup-e.com/goodbye-ruby...). good luck to the remaining RubyGems team, and it’s time to focus my energy on new projects that I’m truly excited about, like rv.dev

Sometimes it's okay to be a bit lazy. Nobody can give 110% all of the time 🤷

I'm looking into Inertia and evaluating various frontend options. Vue. Looks decent. Svelte. Looks sick, I like it. React. WTF, how is anyone without a PHD supposed to work on this? The merchants of complexity are at it again, I guess 🤯

This takes me way back. A couple of years ago I took a test suite from 24 min down to 8. The issues where much the same. Lots of redundant data setup, logging and lack of isolation. The more things change the more they stay the same, I guess? #ruby

Strong Service is Strong. We need more gems like this that push the boundary of what's possible. But I have to say, this much touted DSL looks suspiciously like plain old Ruby 🕵️ #ruby

I've been working on a variety of map-related projects recently and needed some sample images for locations. Wrote this little script to pull a bunch of street view images. Dead simple. Yeah, the resolution isn't great, but it's good enough for seeds 👌 #ruby

Finally made a gem that implements all the features I use when working with service objects. github.com/shkm/strong_...

Just registered for @thoughtbot Open Summit 2025! See you there? thoughtbot.com/blog/announc...

Some weeks, you feel like you can't get anything done. Some weeks, you're absolutely crushing it. It took me some years (decades?) to reach a point where I could accept that. If you're in a slump, that's fine. Don't be hard on yourself. It'll get better.

I've been obsessed with Browser compatibility lately. Maybe one of my apps broke on an older version of Safari. Whoops. Anyways. I got into Browserlists and Baseline, and wanted a way to integrate this tooling with Rails. Presenting Browserslist Ruby 👇 #rubyonrails

Lightgallery looks terrible out of the box. Luckily, pretty easy to fix with some simple CSS. Here's the before and after. Pretty happy with the result 😊

Devise has this nice 'authorized` helper for conditionally defining routes based on whether the user is logged in or not. Among other things, this allows you to define multiple root routes. If you're not using Devise, here's how to create that helper yourself. #rubyonrails

I'm conflicted about Omarchy. I love seeing more people using Arch. But one of the great joys of using Arch is learning about all the little things you generally rely on and setting them up yourself. An out-of-the-box solution takes that away from you 🤷

Tailwind doesn't always work well with Rails form helpers. For example, button_to creates a form, which you mostly don't care about. The `contents` class turns the form into a phantom container, so it's children are treated like direct children of the parent. #rubyonrails

I like that we can block specific browsers with Rails 8.0. However, I'm not the only one who feels that the default is somewhat arbitrary. Sure, I can always set required versions myself. That's still cumbersome. Working on a little something to address this 🔧 #rubyonrails

Some upgrades to Puny Monitor just dropped. - Improved query performance significantly 🚀 - Simplified dependencies 📦 - Better filters & aggregation 📈 I'm using it for pretty much all my side projects now, it works like a charm. Check it out 👇 #ruby #rubonrails

TIL about ignoring references in git blame 👀 When making bulk formatting changes (e.g. RuboCop), you generally don't want those changes to show up in git blame/change sets in PR reviews. A `.git-blame-ignore-revs` tells git to ignore changes from specific revisions. #ruby

The Speculation Rules API seems like a neat idea. Still very much experimental, but could replace other prefetching solutions (looking at you Turbo) once widely available 🤔

We need more fun in software. Remember when Flipper used to show you 'Blank Space' if you had no features configured? That was before the fun policy arrived 👮 What are your favorite examples of little quirks and easter eggs in software? #ruby

TIL about Stimulus shouldLoad 🤩 Exceedingly handy if you have some controllers that should only load under certain conditions. For example, only on mobile devices (e.g. to provide additional interactions). #ruby #rubyonrails

It's time for another Ruby Meetup! Save the date, September 4th at Platogo. Rails World 2025 is happening at the same time. If you haven't managed to snag a ticket, join us to discuss what's new in Rails 🤗 www.meetup.com/vienna-rb/ev...

RailsConf 2025 talks are live! That was quick. I guess my plans for Sunday evening just changed, time to watch some talks 👀🍿

Clickable editor links just landed in Rails main! A very nice addition, I'm sure this will make debugging just a tiny bit more comfortable. Now I just need to make it work with my trusty Nvim 🧐

"AI is not going to turn you into a 10x developer. It's gonna turn a 10x developer into a 100x developer". Heard on @IndieRails. Tracks with my experience. LLMs work as a multiplier.

I've been writing a bunch of ViewComponents recently. This little helper comes in handy! 🔧 It's crazy how much more pleasant small QoL helpers make development. #rubyonrails

Claude sucks at writing Stimulus Controllers. I don't know where it's getting some of those ideas. Does touching JS just make it instantly dumb? 🤔 A decent CLAUDE file is a must. #rubyonrails

Claude Code works great for Rails apps! Just offload a all the boring work to your friendly AI. - Use Git Worktrees for isolation 🌳 - Tmux/Tmuxinator to run multiple Claude instances 💪 - Some scripting to tie everything together. I've written about it here 👇 #rubyonrails

Updated my Bookshelf for 2024 and 2025! Didn't read as many books as previous years 🤷 Personal highlights looking back are Piranesi and Lord of Light. The latter especially doesn't get as much recognition as it should IMO.

TIL Claude Code recently added support for hooks. Run whatever command after the agent finishes - great for notifications. Don't need to put that kind of stuff into your ClaudeMD anymore 👌

Kind of sad when a random joke project has a better Readme and website than 99% of OSS out there 🥲

Custom Turbo Stream actions are great 👌 So when is the right time to move to state management on the client? Probably never. #rubyonrails

Big Milestone for Rails Mini Profiler! 💪 I finally removed asset bundling via Rollup and moved everything to import maps. This reduced the engine's surface area, and simplifies setup and compatibility with all kinds of Rails projects. Now it's time for some bugfixes!

You know how they say 'Trust, but verify'? Working with LLMs, we can adopt a similar motto. Don't trust and verify.

Moving your 4-year-old Rails engine to Importmaps is... fun 🤡 We're getting there, just takes a while. #rubyonrails

Ruby Schema Store is pretty nice 🤩 If you're using Neovim and want to get nice validations for your Rails YAML files, here's how you can set things up. This is LazyVim and lsp-config, but you should be able to get things done with a different setup too. #rubyonrails #nvim

I wrote a brief article on how to use Hotwire Combobox for a minor feature in RubyEvents! What made this interesting was a combination of requirements: Multi-selection, free-text input, and mapping values for YAML generation. Give it a read and let me know what you think 👇 #ruby #rubyonrails

Another day, another documentation PR 🙃 I struggled with multi-select comboboxes with Hotwire Combobox. A simple example would have helped a ton. Be the change you want to see in the world, I guess? github.com/josefarias/h...

Your Exit Strategy Dream Is My Customer Nightmare. Wonderful essay, worth a read.

Had some fun adding Hotwire Combobox to rubyevents.org . Can't say it was easy - wrapping my head around how everything works together took some time - but I'm pretty happy with the result. #ruby

How are you dealing with SQLite extensions? I had to work with Spatialite. It's not on sqlpkg, so I needed to install the extension and then load it in an initializer. Works great. This was extra-fun because the library file isn't always in the same place, depending on the OS 🤡 #ruby #rubyonrails