--- title: "Can AI tools write good Rails code? Well.." publication: "Ruby Weekly" issue: 661 published_at: "2023-07-06" canonical_url: "https://rubyweekly.com/issues/661" --- Plus let's get a grip on pattern matching, RBS, and garbage collection. | #​661 — July 6, 2023 [Read on the Web](https://rubyweekly.com/issues/661) Together with [![Memetria\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/c_fill,g_auto,w_600,h_145/e_make_transparent/co_white,e_outline:7/vvpdctzacmq3xehpvwps.png)](https://dashboard.memetria.com/rubyweekly/) Ruby Weekly [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60,q_auto/uon6zqmjy2itpswixd5d.jpg)](https://blog.peterzhu.ca/notes-on-ruby-gc/) [Revisiting Garbage Collection in Ruby](https://blog.peterzhu.ca/notes-on-ruby-gc/) — First published in 2020 but now almost entirely rewritten for 2023, Ruby internals expert Peter Zhu takes us on a technical, but reasonably easy to follow, tour through Ruby 3.2’s GC implementation, its data structures, and how the phases of its lifecycle operate. 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