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#​802 — May 28, 2026

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Hone Your Postgres Skills - Choose from 44 POSETTE 2026 Talks — Pick from talks about PostgreSQL-backed app development, Postgres performance, scaling, graph data, AI agents, Postgres 19 and more in the Ultimate Guide to POSETTE: An Event for Postgres. This free & virtual developer event is happening 16-18 June.

Microsoft | AMD sponsor

⚡️ IN BRIEF:

🧑‍💻 Ready to Turn your SDLC into an AI-DLC? — Custom, human-in-the-loop, Claude skills embedded across planning, QA & release, built with 60k hrs of Rails expertise.

Ombulabs.ai | Custom AI Solutions sponsor

📄 Running Migrations Once During a Multi-Host Kamal Deploy – Using a pre-deploy hook to prevent migration errors when multiple web containers boot at the same time. Anthony Drake

📄 Rails 8.1's Native Markdown Rendering Support – Via format.md and render markdown: Amol Joshi

📄 Migrating from Sprockets to Propshaft in Rails 8 Amol Joshi

🤖 My Agent Skill for Test-Driven Development Jason Swett

🛠 Code & Tools

Rouge 5.0: The Pure-Ruby Code Highlighter — A long-standing and mature solution with support for 233 languages, plus compatability with Pygments styles so there are tons of themes. v5.0 drops Ruby 2.7 support, fixes bugs, and adds five new lexers for Thrift, Dylan, 6502 assembly, PDF, and Veryl.

The Rouge Team

Unlimited Postgres for Developers and Their Agents — "Databases were long-lasting infra. Now I spin one up for an afternoon and kill it when done. Feels wasteful. It's not."

Ghost sponsor

Discard 2.0: Soft Deletes for ActiveRecord Done Right — A mixin to add conventions for flagging records as discarded with a nice API.

John Hawthorn

Tmuxinator: A Tool to Manage Complex tmux Sessions Easily — tmux is a terminal multiplexer a lot like screen but with more features (and increasingly popular in the LLM era as a way to give agents persistent, controllable terminal sessions).

Bargi and Chow

zxcvbn-ruby 2.0: A Password Strength Estimator — A Ruby port of Dropbox’s zxcvbn JavaScript library to show users how secure their passwords are or to enforce password strength. v2.0 changelog.

Envato

  • Retriable 4.0 – A DSL for retrying failed code blocks with randomized exponential backoff.

  • wasmtime-rb 45.0 – Ruby embedding of the Wasmtime WebAssembly runtime.

  • ⏱️ Hitimes 3.2 – Fast, high-resolution timer library for recording perf metrics.

  • Petite Vite Rails – Rails plugin that wires a Vite frontend into a Rails app.

📰 Classifieds

💎 Elasticsearch-quality Full-Text Search for Postgres, now with native ActiveRecord support.

RailsPilot — Can't work through your backlog? Staff engineers with AI-augmented workflows deliver 12 production-ready features/month for $4K. First PR in 24 hours.

📢  Elsewhere in the ecosystem