RubyGems.org Gets a New Design — The RubyGems site has received a major lick of fresh paint, much like the official Ruby site several months earlier, with a new theme in both light and dark modes. You can see the work that went on in these pull requests. I like it, though 𝕏 not everyone is a fan.

Rubygems․org

Full-Text Search in ActiveRecord Without a Second System — The official ParadeDB gem brings BM25 full-text search to ActiveRecord. Query your live Postgres tables with the speed and relevance ranking of Elasticsearch. No ETL, no sync jobs.

ParadeDB sponsor

Getting Mastodon Running on Spinel — Two weeks ago we featured Sam's work on compiling a basic Rails app to run on Spinel, Matz's AOT Ruby compiler. But what about a real and large app? Work to get Mastodon running on Spinel is underway and has already yielded some neat byproducts including Spinel Redis and Postgres clients.

Sam Ruby

🤖 How to Audit a Rails Project with Thoughtbot's Audit Skill — A developer runs Thoughtbot's Rails Audit skill against a mature Rails app and shows how to turn the final report into labelled, prioritized GitHub issues.

Daniela Baron

The Tale of Moving a Ruby App from Heroku to Render — A case study of moving a high traffic Ruby app. Compute costs fell but egress fees sent the bill up significantly. Render's founder replied on X saying the post offers a "good overview" and confirmed improvements are on the way.

Jon Sully (Judoscale)

💬 Once a Maintainer: Mike Dalessio — A popular interview series catches up with Rails committer and Nokogiri maintainer Mike Dalessio on how AI has changed security work, plus maintainer burnout.

Allison Pike / Once a Maintainer

Rails, Django or Laravel: Which Is Cheapest to Vibe Code? — AI-generated Rails code hides N+1s until production. We tracked the real token costs of vibe coding.

AppSignal sponsor

Lexxy: A Modern Rich Text Editor for Rails — 37signals introduced Lexxy as a replacement for Trix a year ago. It's matured significantly since, is the main editor in Basecamp, and now has a homepage of its own. It comes with Markdown support, smart links, code highlighting, and integrates with Action Text.

37signals

Extralite 3.0: A Fast, Featureful SQLite Wrapper — The "Ruby on SQLite, but better" library is now.. betterer? It adds many things sqlite3-ruby lacks, has good concurrency options, supports advanced SQLite features, and with v3.0 supports object graph transforms too, as demonstrated in this post.

Sharon Rosner

Behind on Your Product Roadmap? Scale Your Rails Team, Fast — Vetted Rails engineers embedded in your team in weeks, not months. They ship from day one. Flexible terms, no lock-in. 🚀

FastRuby.io® | Rails Staff Aug sponsor

PL/Ruby 2.5: Ruby as a Procedural Language for Postgres — Lets you write functions, triggers, event triggers, and procedures for Postgres in Ruby. Intrigued what you could do? There's a 'cookbook' covering things like email validation, triggers, and token generation.

Joshua D. Drake (Command Prompt Inc.)

AASM 6.0: Add State Machines to Ruby Classes — Started life as the acts_as_state_machine for Active Record, but AASM now supports plain Ruby classes as well as other libraries like Mongoid and Sequel. Ruby 2.x and Rails 6.x support are dropped in v6.0.

Barron, Böttger, et al.

phlex-reactive: Reactive Phlex Components for Rails — Get Livewire-style actions and live cross-tab updates without writing Stimulus controllers or hand-picking Turbo Stream targets.

Mikael Henriksson