--- title: "Ruby 3.1.1 released" publication: "Ruby Weekly" issue: 592 published_at: "2022-02-24" canonical_url: "https://rubyweekly.com/issues/592" --- Plus a podcast episode with Cucumber's Alsak Hellesøy on TDD and BDD. | #​592 — February 24, 2022 [Read on the Web](https://rubyweekly.com/issues/592) Ruby Weekly [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/b0f8eck0mhujqsjjy298.jpg)](https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2022/02/18/ruby-3-1-1-released/) [Ruby 3.1.1 Released (But It's a Small One)](https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2022/02/18/ruby-3-1-1-released/) — It’s the first ‘teeny’ release of Ruby 3.1 meaning it’s basically a big grab bag of bug fixes (including of one that [broke](https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/18453) collection caching in Rails), tweaks, and minor updates (e.g. RubyGems 3.3.7). Yui Naruse [How and Where Are Rails Developers Deploying Rails Apps in 2022?](https://twitter.com/RubyInside/status/1495801042994401282) — Over on Twitter, we decided to ask our followers how they’re deploying their Rails apps nowadays and got over 110 replies! Heroku, Render, AWS, and using Capistrano to VPSes or bare metal all made multiple appearances – there is truly no one best way. Ruby Inside on Twitter [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/4ac2bbb1.png)](https://blog.appsignal.com/2022/01/05/next-level-ruby-on-rails-application-monitoring-with-appsignal.html?utm_source=ruby-weekly-sponsored&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2022-01-05) [Next Level Ruby on Rails Application Monitoring with AppSignal](https://blog.appsignal.com/2022/01/05/next-level-ruby-on-rails-application-monitoring-with-appsignal.html?utm_source=ruby-weekly-sponsored&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2022-01-05) — Let’s run through adding custom instrumentation and monitoring to a Ruby on Rails application. 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