Articles by Tag #ruby
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Music Monday Spotify Open-Source Sync Bot
I created small Ruby utility that syncs tracks from Music Monday's comments to a Spotify playlist. ...
What Just Happened to RubyGems?
By christine September 23, 2025, edited and updated September 25, 2025 And Why We Should...
Contributing to RubyGems (.org)
A few months ago, I wrote about a move that bypassed the maintainers who had built the RubyGems and...
life is a meme!
MemeExplorer Sinatra App — Developer Takeaways This file summarizes my major learnings and...
Untangling the Rails Monolith - quick look at the database
how small incremental changes can benefit in the long term
Your First Rhino Contribution: Making MVP Development Even Faster
From Reading to Contributing If you've been following our Rhino Framework series, you've...
Hostile Takeover of RubyGems: My Thoughts
I'll keep this post evergreen, as the situation evolves. Also, when you are done reading - hire...
Why Ruby Devs Keep Mixing Up Symbols and Frozen Strings; and How to Tell Them Apart
Every time Ruby developers start talking about # frozen_string_literal: true, someone inevitably...
Hulk accept postmark challenge!! Hulk write email!
Postmark Challenge: Inbox Innovators. What Hulk built People not respond when Hulk write...
BetterStructureSql - Clean Database Schema Dumps for Rails (Beta)
A pure Ruby gem that generates clean structure.sql files without pg_dump noise. Currently running in 4 production apps. Looking for feedback!
Tired of Rails one-off scripts becoming a nightmare? I built something for that.
You know the drill. You need to run a script once to fix some data, update user preferences, or...
Advanced Ruby Regular Expressions: Mastering Pattern Matching and Text Processing
Introduction Regular expressions in Ruby represent one of the most powerful text...
MCP Development with Ruby and Gemini CLI
Leveraging Gemini CLI and the underlying Gemini LLM to build Model Context Protocol (MCP) AI...
Role-Based Authorization for Rails: How We Built Rabarber
The Problem We built an admin area for a sales company that included a custom CRM,...
"IN MEMES WE TRUST, ALL HAIL THE EXPLORER!"
Meme Explorer 🚀 Overview Meme Explorer is not your typical Sinatra CRUD app —...
Setting Up Solid Cache on Heroku with a Single Database
I ran into an issue trying to deploy a Rails 8 app to Heroku that was using Solid Cache. This was for a small MVP and ultimately I wanted to use the Solid stack (cache, queue, job) but wanted this to run off a single database on a PaaS like Heroku. The following outlines what I did to get this working.
Semantic Caching for RubyLLM: Cut Your AI Costs by 70%
If you're using RubyLLM to build AI-powered applications in Ruby, you're already enjoying a clean,...
I Built a Dungeon Crawler Game in Ruby (And It Actually Works)
When I tell people I'm building a game in Ruby, I get looks. "Ruby? For a game? Isn't that......
Create a Kanban board with Rails and Hotwire
This article was originally published on Rails Designer This one has been in my "articles...
The Rust Learning Paradox: Why Beginners Learn Faster
After 15 years of Python/Ruby/JS, learning Rust feels like being told you've been holding your fork...
The Stained-Glass Artisan: Composing UIs with Turbo Frames
There is a quiet moment, just after a feature is "done," when you click a link and witness the...
Ruby on Rails in 2026: A Developer's Journey Through Time, Code, and Craft
The most beautiful code is the one you don't have to write—a philosophy that has kept Rails vibrant...
Two products, one Rails codebase
This article was originally published on Rails Designer's Build a SaaS (apologies for the title,...
Announcing Attractive.js, a new JavaScript-free JavaScript library
This article was originally published on Rails Designer After last week's introduction of Perron,...
The Symphony of Scale: A Case Study on Conducting 10x Traffic
You don't build a cathedral all at once. You lay a foundation, you raise the pillars, and you hope...
Mine Artisan's Workshop: Evolving Service Objects into Policies, Forms, and Queries
There comes a time in every senior Rails developer's journey when the app/services directory becomes...
Inline editing with custom elements in Rails
This article was originally published on Rails Designer How would you tackle this feature in a...
The `concerns/` Folder: A Loom of Architecture or a Digital Junk Drawer?
Every seasoned Rails developer remembers the first time they opened a mature codebase. You navigate...
Update page title counter with custom turbo streams in Rails
This article was originally published on Rails Designer A few weeks ago I helped someone start...
Train Your Own LLM: A Deep Dive with Ruby
Author: Davide Santangelo www.davidesantangelo.com The landscape of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is...