--- title: "A Future for Serverless Ruby?" publication: "Ruby Weekly" issue: 417 published_at: "2018-09-20" canonical_url: "https://rubyweekly.com/issues/417" --- This week's Ruby news, issue 417 #417 — September 20, 2018 [Read on the Web](https://rubyweekly.com/issues/417) Ruby Weekly [![A Future for Serverless Ruby?\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/qaltngsr3562xb2aofdr.jpg)](https://medium.com/openwhisk/ruby-goes-serverless-apache-openwhisk-adds-native-support-for-ruby-7134faee14e) [A Future for Serverless Ruby?](https://medium.com/openwhisk/ruby-goes-serverless-apache-openwhisk-adds-native-support-for-ruby-7134faee14e) — Ruby has been a long overlooked language when it comes to serverless but OpenWhisk, an open source serverless system, has now added native support. [FaaStRuby](https://faastruby.io/) is another interesting experiment in the serverless Ruby world right now, too. 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