#794 — April 2, 2026 |
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Ruby Weekly |
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The 'RubyGems Fracture' Incident Report — A postmortem of the Ruby Central vs Bundler story in late 2025 which resulted in the Ruby core team taking stewardship of RubyGems and Bundler. The timeline of events is laid out in detail, but it’s unlikely to resolve the matter entirely (as demonstrated in this Reddit comment by Mike Perham). Richard Schneeman (Ruby Central) |
💡 The Register also has a good independent take on this update factoring in some of the responses to it. |
How a Solo SaaS Founder Stopped Worrying About Rails Maintenance — "FastRuby.io is the steady baseline behind everything. They've simplified my life and freed me up to focus on what's important." See how Bonsai's fixed-cost monthly maintenance helped Tim go from chasing contractors to peace of mind. Bonsai by FastRuby.io® sponsor |
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Ruby Native 0.4: Your Rails App in the App Store — Think Hotwire Native but without ever having to touch Swift, yet you still get native controls, navbars, menus, and iOS 26 styling. It’s now free right up to using TestFlight with your first 100 users. You only pay once you want to go live in the App Store. Joe Masilotti |
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⚡️ IN BRIEF:
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🤖 Rails Upgrade Methodology as Claude Code Skills — I actually used the raw MD files last weekend to upgrade a Rails 6 app to Rails 8 and it went well. Ernesto Tagwerker (FastRuby) |
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Using Perfetto in ZJIT — The ZJIT team has added Perfetto tracing support to visualize and query slow events in Ruby's next-gen JIT. Deep technical content from the people building Ruby's performance future. Max Bernstein (Shopify) |
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CI was designed for 2015. Your deploy frequency wasn't. — Depot CI: 2-3s job starts, parallel steps, SSH debugging. Run Depot sponsor |
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📄 Migrating 9,000 Tests from RSpec to Minitest with AI Agents Viktor Schmidt 📄 Improving on Sandi Metz's Gear Class from POODR – *gasp!* Jason Swett 📄 Handling Uncountable Words in Rails Inflections – Like staff, metadata, feedback.. or maybe sheep? Andy Croll 📄 Teach Rails Irregular Plurals with Inflections — So criterion becomes criteria, say. Andy Croll 📄 Fixtures on Purpose: From Accident to Artifact Mike Moore |
🛠 Code & Tools |
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🏖️ Holidays 9.0: Methods to Deal with Those Special Days — Just in time for Easter! Days off, vacations, public holidays.. whatever you call them, your app might need to know about them. Holidays covers such days the world over using its YAML-based definitions. Holidays Team |
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Your Rails App and Your Analytics Belong in One DB — TimescaleDB extends Postgres so analytics runs on live data. No second database, no pipeline, no sync lag. Try free. Tiger Data (creators of TimescaleDB) sponsor |
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Safely 1.0: Rescue and Report Exceptions in Non-Critical Code — The idea is that while you may want to know about exceptions in certain blocks of code, they might not be serious enough to require crashing out. Sends exceptions to a variety of services out of the box. Andrew Kane |
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re2 2.25: Ruby Bindings to Google's RE2 Regex Library — A safer alternative to backtracking regular expression engines. v2.25 adds a variety of new features including Paul Mucur |
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