The Plan for rv and a Progress Update — Inspired by Python’s uv, rv is a fast Ruby install, gem, and project manager built by several prominent Rubyists. v0.6 landed this week, and things are going well. This post shares some history, progress, and where the team is focusing next.

André Arko

Hiring Rails Engineers Takes Months. We Start Next Week! — Since '17, teams have trusted us to upgrade Rails. The same engineers are now available for staff augmentation: shipping features, squashing bugs, and reviewing the AI-generated PRs piling up in your queue. Skip the 6-month hiring slog. Let's talk. 🚀

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Scaling Rails for a Peak Load of 41M Requests/Hour — A retrospective on how a digital photo-frame service scaled its app for peak load at Christmas. As well as splitting a single primary database into eight, a mix of Rails techniques made it work: native multiple databases, disable_joins, and keyset pagination.

Andrew Atkinson

Rails, The Sharp Parts: An Index Is Not a Plan — A look at seven ways a database index can go unused without you noticing and, crucially, what to do to make it work as intended.

Brandon Weaver

How I Think About Tests: Skips — When is skipping a test the right move, and when does it erode the signal skips are supposed to provide? A Shopify engineer shares his approach for keeping skips rare and meaningful.

Hartley McGuire

Depot CI Now Supports Nested Virtualization — Run Android Emulators and other nested VM workloads directly in Depot CI sandboxes. No extra config needed.

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Turbulence: Visualize Churn vs Complexity in Your Codebase — Kerri Miller has revived an old project from Chad Fowler (co-creator of RubyGems) that helps you identify prime candidates for refactoring in Ruby projects.

Chad Fowler and Kerri Miller

Production Monitoring by Ruby Devs, for Ruby Devs — Our founders built Honeybadger to fix their own production headaches. We think it can fix yours too →

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Kino: A High-Perf Ractor-Based Web Server for Ruby 4.0+ — A Rack 3-based server built around Ractors with benchmarks showing huge memory savings and scaling gains versus Puma. It’s very bleeding edge, though, and can only serve Rails apps in a slower, threaded fallback mode.

Yaroslav Markin