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The Hidden DSL Inside Every Rails Model June 10, 2026 Most Rails developers use belongs_to, has_many, scope, and validates every day. We type them almost without thinking. class User < ApplicationRecord belongs_to :company validates :email, presence: true scope :active, -> { where(active: true) } end But here's something interesting: None of those are Ruby keywords. … Continue reading The Hidden DSL Inside Every Rails Model
The Shared Echo: Understanding Ruby on Rails' Request–Response Cycle June 8, 2026 As developers, we often chase the big topics. Distributed systems. Microservices. Event-driven architectures. AI. Scalability. Performance. The industry constantly presents us with bigger mountains to climb. In that pursuit, we sometimes walk past the things we use every single day. The familiar. The … Continue reading The Shared Echo: Understanding Ruby on Rails’ Request–Response Cycle
June 7, 2026 When Ruby receives a method call, it follows a well-defined search path to determine where that method is implemented. Most developers learn inheritance early, but fewer take the time to understand the complete method lookup path, also known as the ancestor chain. Understanding this mechanism can make debugging easier, clarify how Rails … Continue reading Ruby’s Ancestor Chain: Why prepend Cuts the Line
Turning a Generic LLM into a Ruby Expert: What RAG Fixed and What It Didn't June 4, 2026 A practical look at hallucinations, retrieval, and why having the right documentation is not the same as understanding it. Over the past few months, I've been experimenting with a simple question: Can a generic LLM become a … Continue reading Turning a Generic LLM into a Ruby Expert: What RAG Fixed and What It Didn’t
RubyGems 4.0.13 and Bundler 4.0.13 Released with New Supply-Chain Security Protections June 3, 2026 The RubyGems team has released RubyGems 4.0.13 and Bundler 4.0.13, bringing a combination of security improvements, bug fixes, and quality-of-life enhancements for Ruby developers. Built for Ruby on Rails Build Maps WithoutGoogle APIs Generate beautiful production-ready maps directly from your Rails … Continue reading RubyGems 4.0.13 and Bundler 4.0.13 Released with New Supply-Chain Security Protections
Turning a Generic LLM Into a Ruby-LibGD Expert (One Correction at a Time) June 2, 2026 What a day of conversations taught me about context, memory, and the limits of local AI models. A few days ago, I started what seemed like a simple experiment. I wanted a local LLM to help me work on … Continue reading Turning a Generic LLM Into a Ruby-LibGD Expert (One Correction at a Time)
The Original Sin, the Scorpion, and Local AI June 1, 2026 For the last few weeks, I have been experimenting with local AI models to help me develop and maintain Ruby projects. Built for Ruby on Rails Build Maps WithoutGoogle APIs Generate beautiful production-ready maps directly from your Rails backend. Fast rendering, zero external dependencies, … Continue reading The Original Sin, the Scorpion, and Local AI
Turning Years of Ruby Knowledge Into a Local Coding Assistant June 1, 2026 Introduction Over the years, most Ruby developers accumulate a vast amount of knowledge. Not just source code, but articles, documentation, experiments, bug fixes, pull requests, design decisions, and lessons learned from maintaining production systems. The problem is that this knowledge often remains … Continue reading Turning Years of Ruby Knowledge Into a Local Coding Assistant
Running AI Locally for Ruby Development: A Practical Guide with Ollama, Aider, and Your Own Codebase May 28, 2026 Ruby Stack News — by Germán Silva There's a quiet revolution happening in developer tooling, and it doesn't require a cloud subscription, an API key, or sending your proprietary code to someone else's server. Over the … Continue reading Running AI Locally for Ruby Development: A Practical Guide with Ollama, Aider, and Your Own Codebase
Exploring Ruby’s OpenSSL stdlib internals: from C bindings to Ruby APIs May 27, 2026 Ruby ships with a standard library gem named openssl, responsible for exposing cryptographic primitives, TLS/SSL sockets, certificates, digests, encryption, and secure communication APIs directly to Ruby developers. Built for Ruby on Rails Build Maps WithoutGoogle APIs Generate beautiful production-ready maps directly … Continue reading Exploring Ruby’s OpenSSL stdlib internals: from C bindings to Ruby APIs
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