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https://railsatscale.com/2026-05-12-one-engine-many-tools/
One Engine, Many Tools: Introducing Rubydex — Prism unified Ruby’s parsing layer, and now Vinicius Stock (creator of Ruby LSP) is betting the Rubydex static analysis toolkit can do the same one-level-up for code indexing, with Ruby LSP, Tapioca, and Packwerk already migrating.
3 months ago
https://hawksley.org/2026/05/06/adopting-herb-at-github.html
Adopting Herb at GitHub — GitHub spent the past few months integrating the Herb ERB toolchain into its Rails monolith. Joel tells the tale, including what Herb caught that erb_lint missed in GitHub’s ~500,000 lines of ERB.
3 months ago
https://sinaptia.dev/jidoka
Jidoka: Automation with a Human Touch — Turn your roadmap into a supervised software delivery line. Jidoka pairs coding agents with senior engineers, so teams can modernize legacy code, ship faster, with quality built-in.
3 months ago
https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2026/05/11/ruby-4-0-4-released/
Ruby 4.0.4 Released — The latest CRuby is here. It’s a scheduled, routine update (which the latest stable release gets every two months) so there are no new features, but a lot of bugfixes, so it’s worth the upgrade.
3 months ago
https://socket.dev/blog/gemstuffer
RubyGems Signups Down as Spammers Target London Councils — RubyGems.org has temporarily disabled user signups (installs and pushes remain live) due to a ‘GemStuffer’ campaign where, oddly, public data shared by local councils in the UK is being turned into junk gems en masse.
3 months ago
https://beautifulruby.com/code/tcp-user-timeout
A Ruby Timeout That Works (on Linux) — In 2015, Mike Perham called Timeout Ruby’s most dangerous API and its problems remain (namely that it won’t interrupt a blocking syscall). Brad is now working on an alternative approach, leaning on Linux’s TCP_USER_TIMEOUT.
3 months ago
https://fandf.co/4uuXa7U
How Depot Got CI MicroVMs Booting in Under a Second — Stop waiting for CI warm pools. Depot CI uses just-in-time microVMs that cold boot in under a second for faster builds.
3 months ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqxDGf46asE
▶  Rails Just Made Your Database Agent-Ready — A recent PR to Rails core adds rails query to allow read-only queries from the command line. The video covers the essentials with numerous examples. Of course, there’s an agent skill that lets agents use it well to answer queries too.
3 months ago
https://go.ombulabs.com/381
🤖 Need Claude Skills Tailored to Your Engineering Org? Let’s Talk! — We open-sourced our Rails upgrade skills based on 60,000 hours of experience. Let’s build yours for a11y, dead code, or QA.
3 months ago
https://github.com/ko1/astro
ASTro: AST-Based Reusable Optimization Framework — Ruby core’s ko1 is working on an experimental optimization framework that generates specialized C code from AST interpreters. Numerous sample implementations span various subsets of Ruby, Lua, Pascal, and others.
3 months ago
https://github.com/jeremyevans/ruby-warning
ruby-warning 1.6: Custom Processing for Warnings — A tidy way to customize Ruby warnings. For example: Warning.dedup to deduplicate them, Warning.ignore(:missing_ivar, __FILE__) to ignore a specific warning in the current file, or you can even hide all warnings from gem dependencies.
3 months ago