flowy @scratchedcode

The Active Support Instrumentation doc update PR is ready for community review. If you have experience with the Active Support instrumentation API, or are simply curious how it works and want to help (while also learning about it), please take a look and leave your review here: github.com/rails/rails/pu…

Post awesome Ruby Black Friday deals (they can be yours or others) in the thread below and RT so others can save a few bucks and help out other Rubyists. 🧵 👇

New blog post! obie.medium.com/ruby-was-ready… What I argued in my @sfrubyconf 2025 keynote and expand on in this essay is that Ruby has been preparing us for the age of AI coding agents since the beginning. What XP taught us about feedback, coordination, pairing, clarity, and courage turns out to be exactly the skillset required when you’re no longer coding alone, but collaborating with a swarm of LLM-powered workers. The rituals we once used to stay aligned with human teammates now keep our agents grounded, coherent, and in sync with what we actually intend. Agentic tools can generate more code in ten minutes than most teams shipped in a week a few years ago, but velocity is an amplifier, not a virtue. Without process, AI simply multiplies the mess. With structure from TDD, refactoring discipline, clear architecture, and conversations anchored in intent, the acceleration becomes liberating instead of destabilizing. CHOP (Chat-Oriented Programming) isn’t magic; it’s pair programming with a partner that never gets tired but absolutely needs your guidance, guardrails, and interruptions. What surprised me most while writing this piece is how naturally Ruby fits this moment. The language’s long-held values like readability, expressiveness, humane design, and code that reveals intent are exactly what AI agents need to stay oriented. A clean method reads like a thought, a good abstraction reads like a story, and that clarity helps both humans and machines avoid drifting into confusion. At the heart of it: architecture and developer experience are no longer luxuries. They’re survival tools. Invest in your environment. Invest in clarity. Leave the campsite better than you found it. Ruby was ready for this future not because it anticipated AI, but because it has always been designed for the kind of collaborators we must now learn to be.

Came across two new job postings for Junior Rails positions in one day! jobs.lever.co/commonlit/7ecb… jobs.rubyonrails.org/jobs/8903-juni…

I think this weekend is the perfect opportunity to work on update to the second edition of Kamal Handbook. If you already have a second edition or a patron copy, you'll be first to get this free update. If not, you should probably get it! kamalmanual.com/handbook/

Tools just got a major upgrade in RubyLLM. I just committed a new params DSL that supports full JSON Schema via RubyLLM::Schema. rubyllm.com/tools/#params-…

Thanks to DHH's mention, now we are over a thousand members! Come join us, it is a nice place to discuss Ruby/Rails and tech.

Greg Molnar @GregMolnar

8 months ago

We are over 300 now!

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We are nearing 300 members on the new Ruby Discord! Come, join us! discord.com/invite/qfnMkxb…

So, I'm looking for a job! Internal or external consultant, devrel, training, team fixing, design, architecture. WFH or travel the world. So, if you know any company that has a Dave-shaped hole, please email me. Some more about me on my site. Links below. Many thanks.

In Rails 8, you can now access your notes directly in the browser by visiting `GET /rails/info/notes`! Small details like this are why we love @rails! 💚 #rubyonrails

We’re turning to our community first: Zed is hiring a Support Engineer. Be the first line of help across GitHub, Discord & email—technical enough to reproduce issues, user-focused enough to make every interaction great. Apply or share: zed.dev/jobs/support

Being a developer is waking up every day to realize how little you know… and still choosing to learn.

@Shpigford @rewardful

July 16th beginner rails course FOR FREE!!! So excited to release this. Thanks @rails for making it happen

Ruby on Rails @rails

11 months ago

Coming soon: Rails New, a series for absolute beginners. From installing Ruby on Rails to shipping your first app, @typecraft_dev will walk you through building with #Rails step by step, no prior experience required. If you're curious about @rails, this is the place to start. The

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I'm here and ready to share any and all opinions or experiences I had with Microsoft, Google, and Amazon now. It's been more than long enough and they can't hurt me anymore. Curious about anything? Ask away. I'll queue up some answers for later (stepping offline here shortly).

Want to help @maybe with performance issues? We now have a public dashboard of where the app is struggling! oss.skylight.io/app/applicatio…

ITS HAPPENING Firefox 127 shipped today making it the first browser to support Temporal - the new API for working with Dates, times, timezones + durations

Our new @SimpleBundles website is live✨ simplebundles.com

IRS: you owe us taxes Me: how much do I owe? IRS: you get to figure that out Me: can I just pay what I want? IRS: no we know exactly how much you owe but you have to guess the number too Me: what if I guess wrong? IRS: jail Happy tax season!

I officially finished recording the @elixirphoenix crash course 🔥 If you want to watch all the episodes right now, consider becoming a member of my YouTube channel (link to join in the comments 👇). But the course is free, and I'm releasing 1 episode per week