---
title: "The final report on the 'RubyGems fracture'"
publication: "Ruby Weekly"
issue: 794
published_at: "2026-04-02"
canonical_url: "https://rubyweekly.com/issues/794"
---

Plus tracking holidays, Ruby 3.2 + 3.3 go EOL, Inertia 3, and using AI to upgrade both tests and Rails apps.        

#​794 — April 2, 2026 

[Read on the Web](https://rubyweekly.com/issues/794)  

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[The '_RubyGems_ Fracture' Incident Report](https://rubycentral.org/news/rubygems-fracture-incident-report/) — A postmortem of the [Ruby Central vs Bundler story](https://andre.arko.net/2025/09/25/bundler-belongs-to-the-ruby-community/) in late 2025 which resulted in the Ruby core team [taking stewardship](https://socket.dev/blog/ruby-core-team-assumes-stewardship-of-rubygems-and-bundler) of RubyGems and Bundler. The timeline of events is laid out in detail, but it’s unlikely to resolve the matter entirely (as demonstrated [in this Reddit comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/ruby/comments/1s8of1f/rubygems_fracture_incident_report/odjk4je/) by Mike Perham). 

Richard Schneeman (Ruby Central)   

💡 _The Register_ also has [a good independent take on this update](https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/01/ruby_central_report/) factoring in some of the responses to it.  [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/c_limit,w_480,h_480,q_auto/copm/1d33ebb2.png)](https://www.fastruby.io/blog/reliable-rails-maintenance-for-solo-saas-founders.html?utm_source=cooperpress&utm_medium=paidplacement&utm_campaign=rw-primary-link-apr-02-2026-1&utm_term=saas-founder&utm_content=bonsai-case-study) 

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Joe Masilotti   

**⚡️ IN BRIEF:** 

- [Ruby 3.2.11 has been released](https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2026/03/27/ruby-3-2-11-released/) to fix the recent [zlib vulnerability](https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2026/03/05/buffer-overflow-zlib-cve-2026-27820/), much as [Ruby 3.3.11](https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2026/03/26/ruby-3-3-11-released/) did last week. Note that [Ruby 3.2 is now EOL (End of Life).](https://piechowski.io/post/ruby-3-2-eol/)
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- 🤖 The [_Ruby AI News_ newsletter](https://rubyai.beehiiv.com/p/ruby-ai-news-march-27th-2026) is celebrating its first birthday and is absolutely packed with stuff.
- [Rubysyn](https://github.com/squadette/rubysyn/blob/master/README.md) is an interesting attempt to _'clarify Ruby's syntax and semantics'_.   

🤖 [Rails Upgrade Methodology as Claude Code Skills](https://www.fastruby.io/blog/open-source-claude-code-skill-for-rails-upgrades.html) — I actually used [the raw MD files](https://github.com/ombulabs/claude-code_rails-upgrade-skill/tree/main/rails-upgrade/version-guides) last weekend to upgrade a Rails 6 app to Rails 8 and it went well. 

Ernesto Tagwerker (FastRuby)   

[Using Perfetto in ZJIT](https://railsatscale.com/2026-03-27-using-perfetto-in-zjit/) — The [ZJIT](https://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/master/jit/zjit_md.html) team has added [Perfetto](https://perfetto.dev/) tracing support to visualize and query slow events in Ruby's next-gen JIT. Deep technical content from the people building Ruby's performance future. 

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📄 [Migrating 9,000 Tests from RSpec to Minitest with AI Agents](https://augmentedcode.dev/multi-agent-pipeline-minitest-migration/) Viktor Schmidt 

📄 [Improving on Sandi Metz's Gear Class from POODR](https://www.saturnci.com/improving-on-sandi-metz-s-gear-class.html) – _*gasp!*_ Jason Swett 

📄 [Handling Uncountable Words in Rails Inflections](https://andycroll.com/ruby/handle-uncountable-words-in-rails-inflections/) – Like staff, metadata, feedback.. or maybe _sheep_? Andy Croll 

📄 [Teach Rails Irregular Plurals with Inflections](https://andycroll.com/ruby/teach-rails-irregular-plurals-with-inflections/) — So criterion becomes criteria, say. Andy Croll 

📄 [Fixtures on Purpose: From Accident to Artifact](https://blowmage.com/2026/03/30/fixtures-on-purpose/) Mike Moore  

🛠 Code & Tools 

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🏖️ [Holidays 9.0: Methods to Deal with Those Special Days](https://github.com/holidays/holidays) — Just in time for Easter! Days off, vacations, public holidays.. whatever you call them, your app might need to know about them. _Holidays_ covers such days the world over using its [YAML-based definitions.](https://github.com/holidays/definitions/) 

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[Safely 1.0: Rescue and Report Exceptions in Non-Critical Code](https://github.com/ankane/safely) — The idea is that while you may want to _know_ about exceptions in certain blocks of code, they might not be serious enough to require crashing out. Sends exceptions to [a variety of services](https://github.com/ankane/safely?tab=readme-ov-file#reporting) out of the box. 

Andrew Kane   

[re2 2.25: Ruby Bindings to Google's RE2 Regex Library](https://github.com/mudge/re2) — A safer alternative to backtracking regular expression engines. [v2.25](https://github.com/mudge/re2/releases/tag/v2.25.0) adds a variety of new features including `RE2.extract` which does a match-and-reformat in one step (so you provide a source text, regex, and the desired output format including backreferences). 

Paul Mucur      

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- [Inertia.js 3.0](https://inertiajs.com/) – Provides glue between React, Vue and Svelte SPAs and non-JS server-side frameworks like Rails and Django. [More on v3.](https://laravel.com/blog/inertiajs-v3-is-now-in-beta)
- 🔎 [rbspy v0.45](https://github.com/rbspy/rbspy) – Sampling profiler for Ruby processes that can be used without restarting them. Now supports Ruby 3.2.11 and 3.3.11.
- [ruby.wasm 2.9.0](https://github.com/ruby/ruby.wasm) – An official collection of WebAssembly ports of CRuby. Here's a handy [cheat sheet.](https://github.com/ruby/ruby.wasm/blob/main/docs/cheat_sheet.md)
- [ActiveHash 4.1](https://github.com/active-hash/active_hash) – Use hashes as a read-only data source for ActiveRecord-like models.
- [Gemstash 2.8](https://github.com/rubygems/gemstash) – Run your own local gem server and caching proxy for[RubyGems.org](https://rubygems.org/).
- [Bunny 3.0/3.1](https://github.com/ruby-amqp/bunny) – RabbitMQ client library. Here's [what changed in v3.0.](https://github.com/ruby-amqp/bunny/releases/tag/3.0.0)
- [The Twitter (X) Ruby Gem 8.3](https://github.com/sferik/twitter-ruby) – Ruby interface to the official X API.
- [Parallel 1.28](https://github.com/grosser/parallel) – Run code in parallel processes, threads, or ractors.
- [Ruby-LSP 0.27 Beta 1](https://github.com/Shopify/ruby-lsp/releases/tag/v0.27.0.beta1) (now using [Rubydex](https://github.com/Shopify/rubydex))
- [Rack 3.2.6](https://github.com/rack/rack), [BigDecimal 4.1](https://github.com/ruby/bigdecimal)         

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