Frozen String Literals: Past, Present, Future? — You’ll either have written or seen # frozen_string_literal: true at the top of numerous Ruby files, but why is it there, what does it do, and is it always going to be necessary? Jean explains all in quite some depth.

Jean Boussier

Parsing: How Ruby Understands Your Code — Pat, working on a new version of his popular Ruby Under a Microscope book, is sharing excerpts as he goes, including this basic look into Ruby’s (relatively) new Prism parser.

Pat Shaughnessy

3 Signs of Effective Autoscaling — Use the right metrics (request queue time & job queue latency) / Check metrics every 10 seconds / Easy to understand and configure. Judoscale does what the others don’t. Automatic scaling that just works.

Judoscale sponsor

'We Want to Move Ruby Forward' — Former maintainers of the RubyGems and Bundler projects aren’t exactly happy with the outcome of their recent imbroglio with Ruby Central, but are prepared to support the transition of the projects to the Ruby core team and end the dispute.

André Arko, et al.

Approaches to Code Highlighting in Rails Apps — Whether building a blog, CMS, or some sort of dev tool, you might want to do syntax highlighting in Rails views and this post explores a few ways to do it (most of which you can adapt for non-Rails use, too).

Exequiel Rozas

How to Send RCS Suggested Replies with Ruby on Rails — Explore RCS in Rails! Learn how to send RCS suggested replies in a Ruby on Rails app using the Vonage Messages API.

Vonage sponsor

Rails Pulse: Performance Monitoring and Debugging for Rails Apps — If you don’t want to pay for a third party performance monitoring service, this is a new open source option you can include into your app as a Rails engine. You get an interactive dashboard with response analytics, query performance, trend analysis, and more.

Rails Pulse Team

🧠 Smart Rails Applications Are Not the Future, They're the Present — We identify problems worth solving with AI and implement cost-effective solutions that save significant organizational time.

SINAPTIA sponsor

Benchmark 0.5: Ruby's Built-In Way to Benchmark Code — Benchmark is one of those gems that’s included with Ruby but that can also be upgraded separately. v0.5 adds a new Benchmark.ms method (which you might recognize from Rails’ equivalent monkeypatch) for returning results in milliseconds instead of seconds.

Ruby Core

llm-docs-builder: A Tool for Making Documentation AI-Friendly — A library that transforms Markdown documentation into an AI-optimized format for use by LLMs. Maciej is eating his own dog food too as it’s extracted from how his Karafka Kafka library does it for its own docs.

Maciej Mensfeld

pg_easy_replicate 0.4: Switch Databases with Minimal Downtime — A Ruby-powered orchestrator to simplify the task of setting up logical replication between two Postgres databases then letting you switch over to the newer one with minimal downtime.

Shayon Mukherjee