--- title: "Rack 3.0 released" publication: "Ruby Weekly" issue: 619 published_at: "2022-09-08" canonical_url: "https://rubyweekly.com/issues/619" --- Plus RubyKaigi is on, running Ruby in the browser, and getting Ruby to stick to your deadlines. | #​619 β€” September 8, 2022 [Read on the Web](https://rubyweekly.com/issues/619) πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ Ruby Weekly [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/eyzzpali8ita2owlh0to.jpg)](https://runno.dev/) [Runno: A Browser-Based Code Runner That Supports Ruby](https://runno.dev/) β€” It has some similarities with things like JSFiddle or CodePen, but can run Ruby (as well as Python, C and C++). It can even act interactively and accept user input (such as with `gets`). You can then take these sandboxes and use them on your own pages/blog posts, etc. Ben Taylor [Rack 3.0 Released: The Modular Ruby Web Server Interface](https://github.com/rack/rack) β€” Rack forms the backbone of a majority of Ruby webapps. 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