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Fast Allocations in Ruby 3.5 — Tenderlove never rests! His latest post shows his work in Ruby 3.5 for slashing object‐allocation costs (up to 6× faster for keyword-heavy constructors). He walks us through the techniques behind this win and leaves us buzzing for 3.5’s eventual release later this year.

🤖 Anthropic SDK for Ruby v1.0 — An official Ruby library for Anthropic’s various APIs to work with its popular Claude LLMs.

Don’t Measure What's Easy. Measure What Matters — Imagine Lord Business stops obsessing over story points. Data informs decisions—instead of controlling people.

Managing Postgres Table Partitioning in Ruby — If your app uses a lot of data, Postgres’s table partitioning can offer a simple, transparent-to-Rails way to avoid many associated large data performance issues. Honeybadger has also created a gem to make it even easier to manage.

It’s TRUE, SQL Supports Booleans — A tip for doing things in Active Record in a way that’ll work across database implementations.

🤖 Building a 'Coding Agent' in 94 Lines of Ruby — Inspired by a Go article that used 100 lines, Radan shows how Ruby can be used to build a (somewhat) functional coding agent in even fewer lines of code. It leans a lot on RubyLLM, but this is still very cool.

ZJIT Has Been Merged Into Ruby — ZJIT, a new JIT compiler from the YJIT team, has just been merged into Ruby after Matz’s approval. ZJIT takes a different, more traditional approach to YJIT – all explained in the post – with the hope of being easier for developers to understand and contribute to. Both ZJIT and YJIT should be in Ruby 3.5, but...

Ruby 3.4.4 Released — The latest minor release includes a fix for a YJIT bug as well as a build issue on Windows. Due to the importance of these fixes, it has been released ahead of schedule, meaning Ruby 3.4.5 is now expected in July.

Serving Large Files in Rails with a Reverse Proxy Server — Serving large files directly through an app is rarely the best or most efficient way to do it. Luckily, Akshay shows us a better way in quite some depth.

Amazing Print 1.8: Pretty Print Your Ruby Objects with Style — A fork of AwesomePrint that continues to get updates and an essential tool for ‘pretty printing’ Ruby objects. There’s nothing new but v1.8 formally adds Ruby 3.4 support.

🔥 Executing Structured AI Workflows with Shopify Roast — Roast is a new framework for creating structured AI workflows which are defined in YAML files, for things like evaluating tests, static analysis, doc generation, and more.

🤖 Make Your Next Heroku Upgrade Delightfully Boring with Bonsai — The humans behind RailsBump.org  offer fixed-cost upgrade services. Let our AI-powered process get you there, faster.

🔭 Astronoby 0.7: Compute Astronomical Data and Events — Load in ephemeris files that are used in astrometry to locate various space objects and calculate things like transit times, moon phases, and such things. The project wiki provides some examples, as does this blog series by Rémy.

Semian: Added Resiliency When Calling External Services — A library from Shopify we first linked exactly eight years ago! Semian intercepts resource access by several different libraries (e.g. mysal2, redis, Net::HTTP) and ‘fails fast’ when said external resources are slow or unresponsive.

A Proposal for Defining Virtual Top Level Namespaces — The idea is that defined namespaces can load libraries and dependencies and keep them separate from other namespaces. Numerous benefits are promised like avoiding issues with globally shared objects, name conflicts, or version conflicts. There’s an interesting blend of support and criticism in the responses.

Rails Upgrades: The Good Parts — Trust the agency behind the Standard Ruby tools used by 20,000+ projects. Complex upgrades for GitHub, Gusto, and Zendesk. We set you up for independent, painless, and iterative future upgrades. Flexible contracts, no retainers, no subscriptions.

Is Your Ruby App’s Postgres Database Prepared for Your Next High Traffic Event? — Catch this on-demand video where Postgres expert Lukas Fittl walks through features to tune slow queries, catch regressions, & keep it running at its best.

🤖 OpenAI's Ruby API Library — A reader wrote in to point out that while there are now numerous Ruby libraries for working with LLM platforms, OpenAI now has an official Ruby one of its own, though curiously it’s not on the RubyGems registry yet.

3D Charts and More with JRuby and JFreeChart — Following up on his recent post about using JRuby to work with JFreeChart, Charles demonstrates how to get even more impressive results in the form of an elaborate 3D chart.

Developing a Voice AI App in Rails for Drive-Through Ordering — Ruby and Rails AI content is everywhere these days. Here, Jose enhances a Rails Voice AI app (created in a linked YouTube video) with automatic transcription.

Multistep Forms in Rails with the Wicked Gem — A thorough walkthrough. Wicked is a long-standing gem for managing step-by-step ‘wizard’ processes in Rails controllers.

Memetria K/V: Efficient Redis & Valkey Hosting — Memetria K/V hosts Redis OSS and Valkey for Ruby apps, featuring large key tracking and detailed analytics to manage and optimize application data effectively.

'How We Fell Out of Love with Next.js and Back in Love with Rails' — The book reading/tracking service Hardcover has been working on a big migration from the Next.js world to using Rails coupled with Inertia.js to maintain a React-powered SPA vibe. This post goes into a lot of detail about how they made it work and will be useful for anyone looking...

How Contributions to RubySpec Look Over Time — RubySpec (started in 2006 as part of Rubinius) is the executable Ruby specification used by interpreters to ensure they implement the language correctly. Looking at the contributions over time mirrors the history of numerous Ruby implementations and is interesting to explore.