This morning I couldn't think of the name of the presence_in method from Active Support. But I knew exactly where I'd used it in an ApplicationController from a project I was working on 7 years ago, because the situation was the same.

www.blastoffrails.com CFP is open and Early Bird / Supporter Tickets are now on sale!

My #RailsWorld talk is now live on YouTube! I'm really looking forward to keep pushing Herb and ReActionView forward over the coming months! Please get in touch if you want to help building out this vision! Thank you for all the support! 🙏

XO Ruby, a series of traveling events is making its way to Atlanta on September 13th!! There are only 80 tickets available and they are going FAST www.xoruby.com/event/atlanta/

We can't wait to spend Sat. at the vibrant, dynamic Limelight Theatre for our Atlanta event. Join us for incredible talks, games + local Ruby community. See you there? 🏙️ Sat. 9/13, 9am-5pm 🎟️ Grab your ticket for $100: xoruby.com/event/atlanta/

I'm looking forward to XO Ruby in Atlanta this weekend! I'll be coming down Friday afternoon and staying until Sunday, and looking to hang out with folks. Will I see anyone there?

To celebrate the #RubyTriathlon, I've set 6 more Hotwire Club solution to free access. Feel free to browse the back catalog: www.patreon.com/c/TheHotwire...

Hey Rails friends. I'm trying an experiment. Can you help me send this out to our industry friends? "A week of Hotwire Office Hours, so you can finally tweak your Hotwire-based app." Part group training, part accountability, part hangout with friends. Details soon👇 hotwiresupport.pascal.works

In your opinion, what are the surprising advantages of attending a conference in-person that people might not realize until they’ve actually gone?

Happy to see a new issue of One Ruby Question from @bhumi1102.bsky.social this week! And I appreciated this from the postscript: "Understanding the system is the edge."

Pretty pumped to make it into Ruby Weekly for backpacking. ☺️

Ruby on Trails is back for the second year in a row! 🎒🥾 We'll be doing a 19-mile section of the Appalachian Trail, September 24-28. And we've got room for 2-4 more participants. If you're interested, check out the details and contact me! jeremysmithco.notion.site/Ruby-on-Trai...

Things I've learned the hard way about web development: * automated testing is always worth it in the long-run * limit your dependencies where possible, and keep up with dependency upgrades * don't write code in anticipation of future needs * integrate code changes often, no long feature branches

I'm speaking at @xoruby.com in Atlanta! The lineup is going to be amazing, and I'm practicing the talk over this week. It'll be my first one, and I'm *extremely* fired up to talk about how urgently we need to fix the juniors pipeline. www.xoruby.com/event/atlanta/

Top-level controller namespaces like :api and :webhooks are fairly common in Rails apps, but I like to make top-level namespaces for many other things with distinct access patterns:

I really like building slide decks with Figma Slides, but I feel like it's going to bite me someday when I can't get online right before presenting. (Yes, they have an offline mode, but they warn you: Don't close that tab!)

After just shy of 5 years using Notable as my daily driver Markdown note taking app, I migrated 1990 notes to Bear last night. (No shade to Notable, thank you for your service, but sluggish rendering on really large docs and lack of a mobile app finally got me to switch.)

Solid advice from evilmartians.com/chronicles/w...

Went for my normal 4-mile run today. Felt great, making good time the whole way. Wonder what the difference could be. 🤔 Perhaps the 20 degree temperature drop this week?

Hello folks! I just finished up a contract Rails role this past month and I'm looking at new contract or PT/FTE Rails development roles. Happy to work on full stack Rails development but I'm especially on the lookout for teams who need a growth or design-focused engineer on their team.

I've been working on a speculative workflow library, built on a draft Batches feature for SolidQueue. 😅 I've been low-key obsessed with workflows lately, can't seem to help myself. Here's what the workflow interface looks like currently.

I'm going to be speaking at @xoruby.com Atlanta on September 13th. XO Ruby is a brand-new (traveling) single-day Ruby conference. If you're a Rubyist in the southeastern US, you should check it out! (And if not, take a look at other 5 stops this fall.)

We'll be hosting small regional ruby conferences in Chicago, Atlanta, and New Orleans in September. Tell your friends! www.xoruby.com/blog/why-i-a...

"Fish and the Fishing Fishers Who Fish It" 😂

Ahh, I missed @shortruby.com 😌

There's a kind of refactoring that is similar to reflective listening. The goal is deeply understanding what an unfamiliar system does. The practice is observing the existing code, and then responding "let me say this back in my own words to make sure I've got it."

I wrote some reflections on the flight home from the last RailsConf almost two weeks ago. I've just been sitting on them, feeling some reluctance to share. Maybe because I don't want to be misunderstood? Not sure. But I decided I'd share anyway, and hopefully it's meaningful.

I have this weird thing where my brain will get fixated on a word for a day or two. This doesn't happen all the time, but regularly. It's not on an endless loop, but if I have a break in attention or train of thought, I'm saying that word to myself again.

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...

Good thoughts from "Quality is a trap"

Do you have a project that was inspired by or came out of your time at #RailsConf? 👀 Share with me for a possible feature!

It'll be good to have a little breather and also avoid the summer podcast slump…which appears to be a real thing, looking at stats? 🤷‍♂️ Anyway, we've got a long list of folks we still want to chat with soon!

San Francisco Ruby Conference is calling 🌁☎️ sfruby.substack.com/p/san-franci...

We are at the last #RailsConf in Philadelphia this week! If you want to talk about Ruby, Rails, or our open engineering positions at Niva in NYC, feel free to say hi! 👋 😃 #ruby #rails #railsconf2025 #minaswan

I feel like I could say this about all our episodes, but this is a good one. ☺️ I loved hearing about product engineering at Arrows, how Matt's using generative AI, and how he approaches technical content on social media. Give it a listen!

Today I released the initial version of my first-ever gem, called Active Operator. It's an extraction (and revision) of a pattern I've used for calling external APIs, and then storing and processing their responses. Here's an intro I did. ☺️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFfz...

I think Albuquerque is gonna be a great town for a regional Rails conference. 🌄

If you were rolling your own event system between Rails apps using webhooks, how would you deal with out-of-order events? (Assuming you need to optimize for architectural simplicity, but not necessarily for latency and throughput.)

I'm pleased to announce I'll be speaking at the final RailsConf…for like, uh, 5 minutes. 😅⏱️ My lightning talk proposal was accepted! It's entitled: Programming in the Low Memory Environment of Your Brain. Hope I remember what to say!

Kasper hits on several things that bothered me about delegated types, but I couldn't articulate. It's nice to see a different take here. kaspth.com/posts/making...

macOS + #Ruby devs: I’ve been building a native app that solves the mess of managing Ruby versions + Rails projects. No more asdf*, no more dotfile archaeology. It’s called RubyEnv — and the beta’s almost ready. 📨 rubyenv.app to get on the list. *unless you want to

I'm seeing ActiveStorage attachments sometimes just disappear in one of my apps. I don't run the purge task (not on purpose at least.) Have you seen something like that before? Can't figure out what's going on

Introducing On Rails. A New Podcast. rubyonrails.org/2025/6/25/on...

I hate not having a job. I just want to make cool apps. If you need an #iOS or #macOS developer, I've been doing this since 2008. I worked at Apple on the Reminders app, and I've got lots of #SwiftUI and #Swift experience. I'm really quite the catch.

⚡️ Lightning talk submission for RailsConf due today. (I just finished mine!)

For the past 19 years, careers have been born, dream jobs have been found, and lifelong friendships have formed at #RailsConf. 🥹 And we’re getting together in this format just ONE. LAST. TIME. Don’t let life-changing opportunities pass you by.

Unfortunately I won't be able to attend @brightonruby.com 😢 If anyone is interested in my ticket, please contact me via DM. #BrightonRuby #Ruby #Rails #Brighton #conference

I'm super pumped about this! Travis is putting on a brand new Rails conference in Albuquerque next June! He's documenting the journey, as well as publishing his interviews with other organizers. Here's the conversation we had...

The CfP for RubyConf Thailand 2026 (January 31 & Feb 1) is now open: www.papercall.io/rubyconfth2026 #ruby #RubyConfTH

I thought I was going to miss the very last RailsConf...but I was able to work it out, and now I'll be arriving the morning of Day 2! 🎉 Can't wait to see everyone in Philly! 😊