Buckle Up, There’s a New Gem Server in Town: gem․coop — The recent, tense situation around RubyGems and Ruby Central has led to the launch of a new public gem server called gem.coop, a project led by several RubyGems developers and with support from Homebrew’s Mike McQuaid. It doesn’t support gem pushes yet but mirrors all public gems from RubyGems.org.

Jared White

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Ruby 3.4.7 Released — A release to address a small handful of bugs, but also to update the uri gem which was vulnerable to a URI credential leakage issue. Most Ruby 3.4 users can simply just upgrade uri itself, if preferred, since it's now distributed separately as a gem.

Takashi Kokubun

The Little Random That Could — “Random is, in my view, the most undervalued Ruby class from the standard library,” says Julik, who shows off some neat use cases for it beyond the basics.

Julik Tarkhanov

Building a Subcommand Ruby CLI with Just OptionParser — You might lean on Rake or Thor for creating CLI apps in Ruby, but Ruby’s built-in OptionParser can get you further than you might expect.

David Bryant Copeland

How to Use a Local Docker Registry in Kamal — It's great news that support for using a local registry for pushing and pulling app images is coming to the Kamal deployment tool. It’s not in a released version yet, but you can give it a try as it was just merged into the Kamal repo.

Josef Strzibny

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Amazing Print 2.0: Pretty Print Your Ruby Objects with Style — A fork of the long-fallow AwesomePrint that continues to get updates and is an essential tool for ‘pretty printing’ Ruby objects.

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🤖 Rllama: Ruby FFI Bindings for llama.cpp — If you don’t want to rely on a third-party commercial service for your AI/LLM needs, you can run models locally and work directly with them using llama.cpp and these Ruby bindings.

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Rumale 2.0: A Machine Learning Library for Ruby — Offers a similar interface to Python’s Scikit-Learn for working with support vector machines, regression, perceptrons, decision trees, K-means, component analysis, and similar concepts and algorithms.

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