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Ruby 4.0 Is Here. Why Is AI Still Writing Ruby 3.0? June 17, 2026 Artificial intelligence has become an indispensable tool for Ruby developers. We ask AI assistants to write methods, refactor services, generate RSpec tests, explain stack traces, and even architect new features. For many developers, AI is no longer an experiment—it's part of … Continue reading Ruby 4.0 Is Here. Why Is AI Still Writing Ruby 3.0?
I Have Written Ruby for Years and Just Discovered Enumerator#feed June 15, 2026 Ruby is full of delightful surprises. Even after years of writing Ruby professionally, I still occasionally stumble upon a feature that makes me stop and think: "Wait... Ruby can do that?" Recently, that feature was Enumerator#feed. Most Ruby developers are familiar with … Continue reading I Have Written Ruby for Years and Just Discovered Enumerator#feed
The Rails Deployment Landscape in 2026 June 15, 2026 For years, deploying a Rails application meant choosing between managing your own servers or using Heroku. Today, the ecosystem offers more options than ever, each with different trade-offs in simplicity, control, cost, and scalability. If you're starting a new Rails project in 2026, understanding these options … Continue reading The Rails Deployment Landscape in 2026
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
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)
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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