--- title: "A new attempt to fork Rails" publication: "Ruby Weekly" issue: 813 published_at: "2026-08-13" canonical_url: "https://rubyweekly.com/issues/813" --- Plus json 3.0 rc1 needs your testing, 40 Ruby and Rails perf PRs analyzed, and Rails 7.2 is now EOL. #โ€‹813 โ€” August 13, 2026 [Read on the Web](https://rubyweekly.com/issues/813) ๐Ÿ—“๏ธ **A scheduling note**: We're taking a summer break next week, so we'll be back on August 27. Catch you then! __ _Your editor, Peter Cooper_ Together with [![FastRuby.io\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/c_fill,g_auto,w_467,h_106/e_make_transparent/co_white,e_outline:14/y65nyff19ylf5udphsq4.png)](https://go.fastruby.io/tqd) Ruby Weekly [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60,q_auto/h7ecy6ngejzuwpte80ud.jpg)](https://www.ruby2d.com/) [Ruby 2D 1.0: SDL3, WebAssembly, and a Comeback Story](https://www.ruby2d.com/) โ€” After three years dormant, Tom Black's _"`Square.new`-and-it-appears"_ graphics gem gets a rewrite with SDL3-powered GPU rendering and the ability to compile experiences to WebAssembly ([live examples](https://www.ruby2d.com/examples)). [Learn how to use its DSL here](https://www.ruby2d.com/try#hello-window) or read [Tom's story of resurrecting the project](https://www.blacktm.com/blog/ruby2d-v1-0). Tom Black ๐Ÿ˜… I tested it out by making a little _Mario Paint_-inspired paint app _(above)_ and I learnt I can't draw the Ruby logo at all! [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/c_limit,w_480,h_480,q_auto/copm/820c7ad6.png)](https://go.fastruby.io/tqd) [๐Ÿšจ We Audited 137 Rails Apps. 98% Had a Critical KEV](https://go.fastruby.io/tqd) โ€” Rails 7.2 went EOL this week, so it's a good time to look at whatโ€™s running in production. We map your images, runtimes, and K8s workloads against CISA's KEV catalog and write the verdicts up as VEX. FastRuby.ioยฎ | Infrastructure Assessments sponsor [`json` 3.0.0 RC1 Released for Testing](https://github.com/ruby/json/releases/tag/v3.0.0.rc1) โ€” A big, intentionally breaking release of Ruby's default JSON gem that [Jean wants you to test](https://bsky.app/profile/byroot.bsky.social/post/3mss6h2p3vk22) before its release next month. `create_additions` is gone, so `JSON.load` and `JSON.dump` are safe by default, but beware that unknown options now _raise_ instead of being ignored. Jean Boussier ๐Ÿ’ก Jean has also _just_ dropped [Speeding Up (small) Ruby Hashes](https://byroot.github.io/ruby/performance/2026/08/13/speeding-up-ruby-hashes.html). **โšก๏ธ IN BRIEF:** - ๐Ÿ‘€ [Lucas Dohmen has announced _Amiko_](https://lucas.dohmen.io/posts/2026/08/09/rails-is-done/), a community-run fork of Rails 8, arguing Rails' core has changed little since 6.0 and that DHH's view of the world is incompatible with his own. [Ryan Bigg is unconvinced](https://ryanbigg.com/2026/08/amiko-a-desperate-virtue-signalling-attempt) by the idea and thinks [Hanami](https://hanakai.org/hanami) is the way forward. - Matz has proposed [letting `String#tr` accept character replacement options in a hash style](https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/22238). - As of August 9, Rails 7.2 no longer (officially) gets security support, and Rails 8.0 reaches a similar end on November 7. [More details here](https://rubyonrails.org/maintenance). - ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฟ [Euruko 2026](https://2026.euruko.org/) is taking place next month (September 17-18) in Brno, Czechia, with [speakers](https://2026.euruko.org/#speakers) including Matz, Koichi Sasada, Hitoshi Hasumi (the creator of [PicoRuby](https://github.com/picoruby/picoruby)), Charles Oliver Nutter, and Benoรฎt Daloze. - ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Matz is keeping busy next month as he's also [going to be at _Rails World 2026_](https://rubyonrails.org/2026/8/7/rails-world-2026-matz-agenda) doing a fireside chat with DHH. [The event's full agenda](https://rubyonrails.org/world/2026/agenda) is now up too. ๐Ÿ”’ [A Guide to Security for Gem Authors and Users](https://guides.rubygems.org/security/) โ€” RubyGems' guide to protecting your account, hardening your gems, and reporting vulnerabilities has been updated for 2026 to cover MFA, Trusted Publishing, lockfile checksums, and[cooldowns](https://blog.rubygems.org/2026/06/03/cooldown-let-new-gems-be-vetted.html). RubyGems Guides [Ruby and Rails Performance Roundup: The Backlog Edition](https://mensfeld.pl/2026/08/ruby-rails-performance-roundup-backlog/) โ€” A followup to Maciej's recent [look at PRs which sped up Ruby](https://mensfeld.pl/2026/06/ruby-performance-roundup/), this time tackling 40 more Ruby _and_ Rails perf-related PRs, complete with the numbers. Maciej Mensfeld [Blog Post: Now Watching Your Cron and Sidekiq Jobs: AppSignal Launch Week Recap](https://blog.appsignal.com/2026/07/28/appsignal-launch-week-2026-recap.html?utm_medium=paid&utm_campaign=rubyweekly&utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_content=sponsored-link) โ€” Process monitoring for Sidekiq & cron, hosted MCP, a new CLI, sharper log queries, and dark mode. AppSignal sponsor [Fair by Design: Orchestrating Background Jobs in Ruby](https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/fair-by-design-orchestrating-background-jobs-in-ruby) โ€” What to do when one tenant's giant job batch starves everyone else's queue. Compares four strategies and why no Ruby job processor handles it out of the box. Alexander Baygeldin (Evil Martians) ๐Ÿค– [One Week of Building and Reviewing Code with LLM Agents](https://allaboutcoding.ghinda.com/one-week-of-coding-and-reviewing-with-llm-agents/) โ€“ Hard numbers from a week of agent-driven Rails work showing that diversity of checks and tests beats throwing more agents at a problem. Lucian Ghinda ๐Ÿ“„ [How to Use Playwright in Ruby for Scraping and Testing](https://www.scrapingbee.com/blog/how-to-use-playwright-in-ruby/) Jakub Zielinski (ScrapingBee) ๐Ÿ“„ [What Active Record Transactions Actually Protect](https://railsrevelry.substack.com/p/what-active-record-transactions-actually-protect) Syed Aslam ๐Ÿ›  Code & Tools [DragonRuby Releases a 'Free to All' _Jam_ License](https://dragonruby.itch.io/dragonruby-gtk/devlog/1620970/dragonruby-jam-license-free-to-all) โ€” [DragonRuby](https://dragonruby.org/) is a Ruby-powered 2D engine built on mruby and SDL. It's a commercial product, but there's now a free option for building games to distribute on the Web (even commercially). Desktop, Steam and mobile use remain paid. DragonRuby Team [Solid Objects: Cloudflare _Durable Objects_ for Rails](https://solidobjects.dev/) โ€” Durable, addressable actors (a la Cloudflare's [Durable Objects](https://developers.cloudflare.com/durable-objects/)) for Rails backed by your existing database, with a reactive ERB helper that live-updates every browser without writing channels, Stimulus or JavaScript. Lucas Carlson [AI Shouldn't Cost More Than It Saves](https://sinaptia.dev/posts/building-an-ai-powered-commercial-intelligence-dashboard/?utm_source=cooperpress&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=rubyweekly-2026q3&utm_content=sponsored) โ€” We can find where LLMs pay off, validate with real data, and tune for cost/effectiveness. Need help? [Let's talk](https://sinaptia.dev/contact-us?utm_source=cooperpress&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=rubyweekly-2026q3&utm_content=sponsored). SINAPTIA sponsor [`RubyLLM::Schema` is Now _Schematist_: A JSON Schema DSL for Ruby](https://paolino.me/schematist/) โ€” A general purpose [JSON Schema](https://json-schema.org/) DSL, spun out of [RubyLLM](https://rubyllm.com/) and now covering the full [Draft 2020-12](https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12) vocabulary. Values can be procs resolved at render time, and `to_json_schema` finally returns a real schema document. Carmine Paolino [Dentaku 4.0: Math and Logic Formula Parser and Evaluator](https://github.com/rubysolo/dentaku) โ€” Allows run-time binding of values to variables referenced in user supplied formulas. Intended to safely evaluate untrusted expressions. Solomon White - [Haml 7.3](https://github.com/haml/haml) โ€“ The templating engine that simplifies writing HTML by using indentation and elegant syntax now replaces Ripper with Prism. - [Reline 0.7](https://github.com/ruby/reline) โ€“ Official pure-Ruby library with the same API as `readline`. - [Delayed 4.0](https://github.com/Betterment/delayed/releases/tag/v4.0.0) โ€“ Multi-threaded, SQL-driven Active Job backend. - โœ‰๏ธ [Ahoy Email 4.0](https://github.com/ankane/ahoy_email) โ€“ First-party email analytics for Rails apps. - [Brakeman 8.0.6](https://brakemanscanner.org/blog/2026/08/12/brakeman-8-dot-0-dot-6-released) โ€“ Vulnerability scanner for Rails apps. ๐Ÿ“ฐ Classifieds Analytics on your Rails data without a second database? [TimescaleDB](https://www.tigerdata.com/go/trial?utm_source=content-syndication&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ruby-weekly-newsletter) extends the Postgres you run. --- ๐Ÿ’Ž Is your Rails app fine? Probably. 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