Are you thinking about migrating your Rails app to a new hosting platform? One of our devs is talking about this live right now on www.linkedin.com/events/73744...

Kudos to the Bridgetown team on the 2.0 release. I was able to upgrade from v1.3 and re-deploy maintainable.fm in under 15 minutes. (without the use of AI) github.com/bridgetownrb...

Really wish I could’ve been in the Logitech product roadmap meeting where someone said: “Let’s add calendar integration to the app people use to adjust mouse speed and webcam lighting.”

I got to open Day 2 of Rails World by interviewing @tenderlove.dev, @hsbt.org, and @byroot.bsky.social live on stage. We covered security, JSON, YJIT, ZJIT, Microsoft Windows?, and yes… Aaron’s “favorite” Regular Expression. Watch the full panel + recap: robbyonrails.com/articles/202...

Some of you never dropped out of high school, got neck-deep in progressive politics, and spent your late teens and early 20s in anarcho-punk-adjacent groups and causes where every disagreement or big change ended with someone forking the IRC channel… and it shows.

I just learned that Joe O’Brien (objo) passed away in his sleep last night. His wife shared the news on Facebook. My heart goes out to his daughters and wife.

Finally wrote up something I’ve been thinking about for months. Prompted by podcast conversations, Rails at Scale, and late-night shop talk in Amsterdam. 🌀 7 Stages of Tech Stack Adoption robbyonrails.com/articles/202...

Vacation almost over, what have I missed?

Breaking: Ruby spotted back on top.

Getting to the bottom of this.

An extended family member tried connecting to the hotel wifi… from a restaurant five kilometres away. Multiple attempts. I finally explained that wifi ≠ satellite.

I always pictured selling my rental as a desk-and-pen kind of thing. Instead it happened at a glamping pod in Ireland, sauna still warm behind me. The signature was the easiest part.

Strap in geeks, we're on a wild ride! Fast cars and beautiful terminal shells pair well together. Picking up my new wheels that @ohmyz.sh sponsors helped pay for.

Off The Rails #Ireland

The American mind cannot comprehend this.

Got to PDX airport early so I could catch my band’s music video at the mini theatre. It’s playing once per hour for a few more weeks in Concourse C. First time seeing it on a screen larger than my laptop.

Ruby on Rails devs: we love caching until we realize half our queues are filled with jobs nobody asked for. I call it Cache Pollution. New post on how to keep your caching strategy lean: robbyonrails.com/articles/202...

what’s the name for a version-and-dependency-and-more manager like `uv`? I don’t know, but I’m building one for Ruby anyway andre.arko.net/2025/08/25/r...

Recently got to talk shop with @taylorotwell.bsky.social about the things that I love to talk shop about. Add to your playlist queue

We’ve built too many internal tools that quietly became maintenance headaches. I mapped out an Internal Tooling Maturity Ladder to help our team start smaller and commit later. Wrote up a quick overview here: robbyonrails.com/articles/202...

Thought I'd swing by to visit @fito.codegardener.com and @alan.codegardener.com, but they weren't in the studio today.

Every decision in Ruby or Rails is a trade-off… and a bit of taste. What made perfect sense years ago might be the very thing holding us back from improving the experience for someone just starting today. Next month, I will be on stage with @hsbt.org, @tenderlove.dev, and @byroot.bsky.social.

TIL... it’s been “broke the Campbell’s back” all along. The 🐪 was just a red herring. Or maybe a red can.

If you were in a unique position to ask a bunch of people the same question about their Rails app... what would you be curious to hear them talk about? #AskingForAFriendNamedRobby

Been using computers since 1984, and recently had to look up what the Super button was.

Signaling is powerful. "Ex-[Company]" in a bio says: I was chosen. I belonged. But what if your best work is still ahead of you? What are you building now? What story are you telling today?

With all the AI buzz… what software dev books will you still be recommending in 5 years? Not the trendy ones. The ones that actually made you better. I’ll compile and share the list. Drop your favorites 👇

Fun fact: I fell asleep during the Director's cut of Blade Runner in the theatre.

In this new On Rails episode, we talk with Nadia about running The StoryGraph as a solo dev across web, iOS, and Android… Turbo Native, in-app purchases, syncing customer data… and scaling with Yugabyte. Rails made it possible. She made it real. onrails.buzzsprout.com/2462975/epis...

Need some fresh music today?

The recordings from the final RailsConf 2025 are now also live on @rubyevents.org! #railsconf #railsconf2025 @rubycentral.org

I gave a talk at RailsConf 2025: The Features We Loved, Lost, and Laughed At Scriptaculous. Semicolon routes. observe_field. ActiveResource. And the weird joy of revisiting old ideas with fresh eyes.

Oh, a huge shoutout to the yellow jacket 🐝 that decided to crash my coffee date with my friend by sneaking up my shorts! Because nothing says "great time" like a surprise bee sting, right? Thanks for the unforgettable memory!

With Rails celebrating 21 years of being open source... I was curious what my inbox looked like then. I found this email in response to a Craigslist ad for one of the last few PHP client projects we worked on.

If you’re looking for a reason to visit Boston in September, check out @squiggleconf.com. Last year, they invited me to kick things off with a talk about the 15-year story of building @ohmyz.sh. A weekend side project that slowly grew into a global community I never could have predicted.

One of my teammates is hosting a webinar on how we're leveraging @appsignal.com across our client projects. Tune in now www.linkedin.com/events/plane...

What is something you and your team have recently experimented with?

📻 Join @robbyonrails.com as Sara Jackson discusses how good documentation can make teams faster, more confident, and less reliant on institutional memory. 🎧 Listen to the full episode here: maintainable.fm/episodes/sar...

Another review of my band's recent album release. Glad it's connecting with people!

No roadmap. No strategy deck. Just a weekend project that took on a life of its own. Thanks @squiggleconf.com for inviting me to tell the Oh My Zsh story.

Looks like we might have a little capacity opening up at @planetargon.com in the next few months. If your team could use help shipping or stabilizing a Rails app, let’s talk. Details: www.planetargon.com/services/sta...

Appreciate that Gmail added this tool mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#sub

What’s your favorite nut to munch on?

Honestly, the real nightmare is being caught on the jumbotron at that concert. With anyone.

I’m trying to track down what might’ve been the first Ruby on Rails app to get acquired by a much bigger company. The earliest I’ve got so far is Adaptive Path’s Measure Map, which Google scooped up in early 2006. Remember anything earlier than that?

Hey podcasters — I’ve got a little time in August if you’re looking for guests. I can talk about Oh My Zsh, Rails, music, or the noble art of keeping houseplants alive long enough to disappoint you again.

You built that Rails app for a client. Or an employer. Or a team. But you’re acting like no one else will ever touch it. No docs. No tests. TODOs with no context. Outdated gems. Credentials in plaintext. Rails is a one-person framework. But very few apps stay one-person apps forever.

Where are my fellow scrobblers?! last.fm/user/robbyru... Yes. I'm still happily paying for Last.fm. Thank you, Spotify, for keeping the integration.

Thinking about freshening up your terminal setup? Maybe your laptop wants a sticker, too. Use OMZ15-July2025 for 15% off—valid through the end of July. 🛸 shop.planetargon.com/collections/...

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