--- title: "The Ruby Association wants your grant proposals" publication: "Ruby Weekly" issue: 769 published_at: "2025-10-02" canonical_url: "https://rubyweekly.com/issues/769" --- Plus Ruby's -s command line option, even faster JRuby startup times, and TruffleRuby 25.0. | #​769 — October 2, 2025 [Read on the Web](https://rubyweekly.com/issues/769) Together with [![Tuple logo\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/c_fill,g_auto,w_1280,h_389/e_make_transparent/co_white,e_outline:15/yuvcfxufirbcsmzdbpdi.png)](https://tuple.app/l/screen-sharing-sucks?utm_source=cooperpress&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=ruby_weekly_primary_202510) Ruby Weekly [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60,q_auto/cnqkchiceunyuazzaobf.jpg)](https://www.ruby.or.jp/en/news/20250819) [The Ruby Association's Call For Grant Proposals](https://www.ruby.or.jp/en/news/20250819) — Each year, the _Ruby Association_, chaired by Ruby’s creator Matz, puts out a call for proposals for Ruby related projects that they can give a grant (of 750,000 Yen - roughly $5000) to assist further development. **The deadline for this run is October 6, next Monday.** Ruby Association [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/c_limit,w_480,h_480,q_auto/copm/e3004509.png)](https://tuple.app/l/screen-sharing-sucks?utm_source=cooperpress&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=ruby_weekly_primary_202510) [Tuple - What Core Contributors Use to Pair on Ruby and Rails](https://tuple.app/l/screen-sharing-sucks?utm_source=cooperpress&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=ruby_weekly_primary_202510) — 4 out of the 10 top contributors to Ruby use Tuple to pair on code. 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[Playing with Ruby's `-s` Flag](https://github.com/sampersand/blog/blob/master/the%20-s%20flag.md) — Ruby accepts a lot of different command line flags, and this is one I’ve certainly never used before which allows the setting of global variables from the command line. Sam Westerman 💡 This is a great opportunity to link to [the docs about Ruby's command line options](https://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/3.4/ruby/options_md.html) which is packed with examples and will come in particularly useful if you're [writing Ruby one-liners.](https://learnbyexample.github.io/learn_ruby_oneliners/) [JRuby and Leyden: Even Better Startup](https://blog.headius.com/2025/09/jruby-jdk25-startup-time-follow-up.html) — Last week we pointed to the efforts of JRuby’s lead maintainer to [reduce JRuby’s startup time.](https://blog.headius.com/2025/09/jruby-jdk25-startup-time-with-aotcache.html) He’s back with a sneak preview of how the time could be reduced even further in future. 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[Here's a post that goes 'down the rabbit hole'](https://xata.io/blog/going-down-the-rabbit-hole-of-postgres-18-features) of Postgres 18's various features. - [JSON is Not JSON Across Languages](https://blog.dochia.dev/blog/json-isnt-json/) looks at the problems that different approaches to parsing JSON can cause when using JSON as an interchange format between different ecosystems (including Ruby). - The creator of a DOS-themed TypeScript-powered Steam game [managed to port a version of the game to run on MS-DOS.](https://jimb.ly/2025/09/23/qauntumpulse-from-steam-to-floppy/) Arguably, you could do something similar with Ruby as [mruby 3.3.0](https://mruby.org/releases/2024/02/14/mruby-3.3.0-released.html) onwards [supports DOS](https://github.com/mruby/mruby/pull/6022) as a platform.. - 🤖 [Claude launched its Sonnet 4.5 model](https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-sonnet-4-5) this week, showing off benchmarks claiming to make it the best coding model released so far. Alongside that, they also released [Claude Code 2.0](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@anthropic-ai/claude-code), the latest version of their popular terminal-based coding agent. - If you use JavaScript at all, you can now [take the _State of JS 2025_ survey](https://survey.devographics.com/en-US/survey/state-of-js/2025) – it's a popular annual survey which always yields interesting results. Curated by [Peter Cooper](https://twitter.com/cooperx86) and [Glenn Goodrich](https://twitter.com/ruprict). Published by [Cooperpress](https://cooperpress.com/). 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