Beyond travel_to: The Block-Scoped State Pattern Hidden in Rails Testing

Beyond travel_to: The Block-Scoped State Pattern Hidden in Rails Testing August 12, 2026 Rails developers often use travel_to without thinking much about how it works. travel_to Time.zone.parse("2026-08-12 10:00") do # Test code runs as if it were 10:00 end The API is simple: change the perceived time, run some code, and automatically return to the … Continue reading Beyond travel_to: The Block-Scoped State Pattern Hidden in Rails Testing →

Hooking into ActiveRecord’s Connection Pool: A Clean Way to Enable PostgreSQL Row-Level Security

August 6, 2026 Most Rails applications that implement multi-tenancy eventually face the same question: Where should the PostgreSQL tenant context be established? Many implementations set the tenant at the controller or middleware level. While that identifies the current tenant, it doesn't necessarily guarantee that every database connection carries the correct PostgreSQL session state. A cleaner … Continue reading Hooking into ActiveRecord’s Connection Pool: A Clean Way to Enable PostgreSQL Row-Level Security →

Ruby Association Activity Report 2026: Matz, Fastly, and Ruby Grant Projects Take the Stage

July 27, 2026 The Ruby Association has announced the Ruby Association Activity Report 2026, an in-person event that will showcase recent developments across the Ruby ecosystem, including keynote presentations, invited talks, and the results of the Association's 2025 development grant program. The event will take place on August 4, 2026, in Tokyo, Japan. Matz to … Continue reading Ruby Association Activity Report 2026: Matz, Fastly, and Ruby Grant Projects Take the Stage →

Rails Isn’t Getting Bigger It’s Getting Sharper

Rails Isn't Getting Bigger It's Getting Sharper July 27, 2026 Every week, This Week in Rails highlights the latest changes merged into the framework. Most weeks, it's easy to focus on the individual features. But the July 10 edition suggests something more interesting: a broader trend in how Rails is evolving. Instead of shipping large, … Continue reading Rails Isn’t Getting Bigger It’s Getting Sharper →

Ruby May Finally Fix the Famous “Norway Problem”

Ruby May Finally Fix the Famous "Norway Problem" July 21, 2026 The Ruby ecosystem may soon take an important step toward modern YAML support. Hiroshi SHIBATA (hsbt), a Ruby core developer, has introduced an experimental backend for the Psych library based on libfyaml, bringing full YAML 1.2 compliance closer to Ruby. While this might sound … Continue reading Ruby May Finally Fix the Famous “Norway Problem” →

Beyond tenant_id: Treating Multi-Tenancy as a Database Invariant

Beyond tenant_id: Treating Multi-Tenancy as a Database Invariant July 20, 2026 Most Rails applications that become SaaS products follow the same trajectory. They begin with a single customer, acquire a second, then a third, and eventually someone adds a tenant_id column to every table. From that moment forward, every query is expected to remember to … Continue reading Beyond tenant_id: Treating Multi-Tenancy as a Database Invariant →

⚽ World Cup Fever Hits the Ruby Community

⚽ World Cup Fever Hits the Ruby Community July 14, 2026 As the FIFA World Cup 2026 reaches its final stages, millions of fans around the globe are glued to every match. The Ruby community is no exception. Over the past few weeks, we've seen several developers build and share open-source Ruby and Rails applications … Continue reading ⚽ World Cup Fever Hits the Ruby Community →

Why Ruby’s Issue Tracker Still Links to a 1991 Paper About Floating-Point Numbers

Why Ruby's Issue Tracker Still Links to a 1991 Paper About Floating-Point Numbers July 8, 2026 If you've ever been surprised by this in Ruby: (2.0 - 1.1) == 0.9 # => false you're not alone. Many developers initially assume this is a Ruby bug. It isn't. In fact, Ruby's own issue tracker includes a … Continue reading Why Ruby’s Issue Tracker Still Links to a 1991 Paper About Floating-Point Numbers →

Dependabot Resolves Remaining Bundler 4 Compatibility Issues

Dependabot Resolves Remaining Bundler 4 Compatibility Issues July 1, 2026 Teams adopting Bundler 4 can breathe a little easier. After several weeks of community reports and investigation, the remaining compatibility issues between Dependabot and Bundler 4 have now been addressed through merged fixes in dependabot-core. The fixes resolve two separate issues that affected projects relying … Continue reading Dependabot Resolves Remaining Bundler 4 Compatibility Issues →

Design Patterns, the Ruby Way (Part 3): Behavioral Patterns in Real Ruby Applications

Design Patterns, the Ruby Way (Part 3): Behavioral Patterns in Real Ruby Applications June 30, 2026 In the previous article, we explored how Ruby simplifies many creational and structural design patterns. But some of the most interesting patterns aren't about creating or organizing objects. They're about how objects collaborate. Behavioral patterns define how responsibilities are … Continue reading Design Patterns, the Ruby Way (Part 3): Behavioral Patterns in Real Ruby Applications →