'How We Fell Out of Love with Next.js and Back in Love with Rails' — The book reading/tracking service Hardcover has been working on a big migration from the Next.js world to using Rails coupled with Inertia.js to maintain a React-powered SPA vibe. This post goes into a lot of detail about how they made it work and will be useful for anyone looking to blend the two different worlds.

Adam Fortuna

How Contributions to RubySpec Look Over Time — RubySpec (started in 2006 as part of Rubinius) is the executable Ruby specification used by interpreters to ensure they implement the language correctly. Looking at the contributions over time mirrors the history of numerous Ruby implementations and is interesting to explore.

Benoit Daloze

Memetria K/V: Efficient Redis & Valkey Hosting — Memetria K/V hosts Redis OSS and Valkey for Ruby apps, featuring large key tracking and detailed analytics to manage and optimize application data effectively.

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Multistep Forms in Rails with the Wicked Gem — A thorough walkthrough. Wicked is a long-standing gem for managing step-by-step ‘wizard’ processes in Rails controllers.

Exequiel Rozas

Developing a Voice AI App in Rails for Drive-Through Ordering — Ruby and Rails AI content is everywhere these days. Here, Jose enhances a Rails Voice AI app (created in a linked YouTube video) with automatic transcription.

Jose Blanco (Thoughtbot)

😵 Heroku-20 Hit EOL on 4/30. Need to Upgrade to Heroku-24? — The team behind RailsBump.org can help. Let our AI-powered, battle-tested process get you there faster. 🤖

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3D Charts and More with JRuby and JFreeChart — Following up on his recent post about using JRuby to work with JFreeChart, Charles demonstrates how to get even more impressive results in the form of an elaborate 3D chart.

Charles Oliver Nutter

Ivar: Ruby’s Missing Instance Variable Typo Warnings — Ivar automatically checks for typos in instance variables, and rather than just drop the code, Avdi gives us a complete tutorial to demonstrate its value. GitHub repo.

Avdi Grimm

Is Your Ruby App’s Postgres Database Prepared for Your Next High Traffic Event? — Catch this on-demand video where Postgres expert Lukas Fittl walks through features to tune slow queries, catch regressions, & keep it running at its best.

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🤖 OpenAI's Ruby API Library — A reader wrote in to point out that while there are now numerous Ruby libraries for working with LLM platforms, OpenAI now has an official Ruby one of its own, though curiously it’s not on the RubyGems registry yet.

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