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🚀 FastRuby.io Makes Your Rails Upgrade Delightfully Boring with Bonsai — The team behind RailsBump.org offers gradual, 0-downtime upgrades — transform your engineering culture on a fixed budget.

RubyLLM 1.1: Work with AI the Ruby Way — One of a recent group of libraries to simplify working with LLM models provided by companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, and DeepSeek from Ruby. (Homepage.) v1.1 extends support to AWS Bedrock, adds configurable retries and smarter tool error handling, and provides a simpler way to provide system prompts.

▶️ Boolean vs Datetime for Marking States — Rather than mark a row in your database as being published or unpublished, boolean style, why not use a datetime column to indicate when it was published? David looks at how this can work in a Rails app.

Introducing MonkeysPaw: A Prompt-Driven Web Framework in Ruby — You probably won’t be rolling this into production any time soon, but MonkeysPaw explores the curious idea of just writing pages as prompts and then letting a large language model just get on with it(!)

JRuby 10: 'Our Most Important Release Ever' — I think it’s easy to argue the JVM-based JRuby is the second most important Ruby implementation behind CRuby, so it’s exciting to see it take a huge step forward with Ruby 3.4 compatibility, Java 21 support, and more optimizations enabled by default. v10 is ready to use now, though it’s not formally released till next week....

RoR in 2025: Outdated or Underrated? — From fast frontends to smart backends, Rails is leveling up. Check out its potential with Hotwire, modern SQLite, and AI-powered capabilities for building robust apps. Build better, deliver faster with the latest RoR trends.

📅  Ruby Events: 6,000+ Talks from 200+ Ruby Events — Formerly known as Ruby Video, this mammoth repository of Ruby videos and event information is only getting better and better. The goal is to index all Ruby events, and their talks, and make it easier to look through them.

Let There Be Docs: Generating an OpenAPI Schema Across the Rails Stack — Do you prefer to write API docs first or start with the implementation? For the latter, it’s possible to use Typelizer and RSwag to automatically extract type info from serializers, controllers, and the database that stays synchronized with the implementation.

Heroku SSL Revisited (2025 Edition) — Reflections on the quirks of getting Heroku and Cloudflare to play nicely together when it comes to certificates – something that is now achievable, says Adam.

Hypershield 0.5: Shield Sensitive Data in Postgres and MySQL — Looking to hide sensitive data to help comply with GDPR, say? Hypershield creates ‘shielded’ views that can hide sensitive tables and columns.

Rage 1.15: An HTTP API Framework Compatible with Rails — A high performance, fiber-based API-only Web framework that boasts compatibility with Rails. v1.15.0 introduces an OpenAPI Explorer for experimenting with Rage’s OpenAPI support without needing to set up a project first.

RubyUI 1.0: Reusable Copy-and-Paste Components for Rails Apps — Formerly known as PhlexUI, RubyUI is a collection of reusable Phlex-powered components you can generate or copy and paste into your apps. There’s full documentation, as well as a page for each of the 43 components on offer, covering things like badges, checkboxes, cards, sheets, and tables. GitHub repo.

How Ruby Makes Advanced CLI Options Easy — Ruby’s OptionParser standard library offers a straightforward way to work with command line options without pulling in any dependencies.

💤 Make Ruby Upgrades Budget-Friendly & Boringly Reliable — FastRuby’s fixed-cost, monthly maintenance services keep security tight and uptime high. The team behind the `next_rails` gem makes tech debt remediation feel delightfully boring so your team can keep up with your product roadmap. 🚀

Profiling Rails Apps with Rails Debugbar — Julien Bourdeau’s DebugBar gives you an extra way to get insights into what your Rails app is doing behind the scenes, directly from a toolbar in the browser. Akshay explains how to use it to find things worth fixing.

Hiding Unfinished Features in Rails — A quick and easy tip for adding a under_construction helper that hides features outside of the development environment.

🛤️ Don’t Let Tech Debt Stop You in Your Tracks — Hire engineers with 15 years of experience to keep your Ruby on Rails app up to date, stable, and secure.

Nōdo: A Way to Call Node.js from Ruby — A mechanism for letting Ruby scripts make calls to Node.js-based functions via a Unix socket-based IPC approach. (We also learn that “ノード” means “node” in Japanese.)

bidi2pdf: Convert a URL to PDF using Ruby and Chrome — A proof of concept offering both a CLI and Ruby library interface to using Chrome to render PDFs of Web pages.

Ruby 3.2.8 and 3.1.7 Released — These minor releases fix the vulnerabilities in CGI and URI described here. Ruby 3.1.7 is also considered the final release of the 3.1 series with users encouraged to upgrade to 3.3 or 3.4.

Terrapin 1.1: Run Shell Commands Safely — A little extra abstraction for running shell commands that provides safer interpolation, particularly if using user-supplied values.

Examples of Value Objects with Ruby's Data Class — We linked to Lucian’s article on value objects last week. He follows up with some useful examples of using them to remove boilerplate code and handle API responses.

New Policies to Support the Growth of RubyGems — In response to a potential legal issue that arose around taking down a gem with a possibly trademarked name, Ruby Central is tightening up its official policies which can be read in full here – the policies will take final effect in late May, after a review period.

NEW: Get Real-Time Alerts from Your Logs in Honeybadger — We just shipped a new feature for log management. Alarms allow you to combine a query (“count all slow requests in the past five minutes”) with a threshold (”when count is > 2”) and trigger alerts when the result exceeds the threshold. Read the blog post →