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BeautifulRuby.com @beautifulruby.com · 02/12/2025

37 signals released the source code for their latest Rails SaaS called Fizzy. I did a source code read through video and wrote about it. I think I found 2 potential security issues along the way too. Enjoy! beautifulruby.com/code/fizzy

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37 Signals Fizzy Kanban board

I walk through the source code of the latest Rails application open-sourced by 37 Signals

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Brad Gessler @bradgessler.com · 27/11/2025

I collected all Ruby Black Friday deals I could find & posted them in one spot. Highlights include: $130 off @beautifulruby.com Phlex on Rails course $81 off @gorails.com annual subscription +20% @joemasilotti.com Hotwire native content Lots of @pragprog.com deals Enjoy! 🦃🔥💰

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2025 Ruby Black Friday Deals

Save money on Ruby books, courses, and software

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BeautifulRuby.com @beautifulruby.com · 21/11/2025

During the @sfruby.com conference I got a chance to walk with @adrianthedev.com, founder of @avohq.io, and talk about the business of selling self-hosted, installed software to developers. Turns out it's pretty challenging, but there's some upsides if you can figure out how to do it. 💪

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Adrian Marin, founder of Avo, talks about the business of selling software to developers

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BeautifulRuby.com @beautifulruby.com · 28/10/2025

I was tempted to add Sign-in with Google & Apple, but left it as email. There’s something simple and straight forward about it that I like. You’ll sense that when I talk about Supermail. youtu.be/frc0ukddZRo?...

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Authentication for BeautifulRuby.com: Read The Friendly Source Code

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BeautifulRuby.com @beautifulruby.com · 27/10/2025

Did you know there's a project called Opal that makes it possible to write JavaScript in Ruby? I'm not sure if it's a good idea or not, but it won a Ruby award so I decided to dive in and Read the Friendly Source Code. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtRO...

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Write JavaScript in Ruby with Opal: Read The Friendly Source Code

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Brad Gessler @bradgessler.com · 21/10/2025

Official launch article for the Phlex on Rails video course. Huge thanks to @joel.drapper.me for creating @phlex.fun. It was fun making the course for it. I hope this inspires more people to use Phlex so we can all benefit from building UIs with components without React JS bloat. 💪🚀

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Introducing Phlex on Rails

Officially launching a video course for building component-based UIs in Rails

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BeautifulRuby.com @beautifulruby.com · 15/10/2025

Going deeper down @ioquatix.bsky.social's async Ruby rabbit hole: I RTSFC async-http, a gem that implements http for the Falcon web server that Shopify recently deployed to production. Turns out it's a few different repos & I tried my best to read 1 in under 10 min. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IL6...

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Async HTTP, a big part of the Ruby Falcon Web Server: Read The Friendly Source Code

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BeautifulRuby.com @beautifulruby.com · 14/10/2025

I made the Phlex on Rails video course off-the-grid with Starlink internet, solar power, and a MacBook Air. Everything fit in a 35 lb backpack. This video shows how I built the portable dev setup & recording studio. I have a list of all the gear at beautifulruby.com/articles/por... ✌️

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Creating the Phlex on Rails Video Course Outside: an Off-the-Grid Dev Setup & Recording Studio

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BeautifulRuby.com @beautifulruby.com · 13/10/2025

Shopify deployed Falcon, an async IO Ruby web server that’s been a labor of love by @ioquatix.bsky.social, to a production Rails app. I’ve been using it for a while in my Rails app and love it, so of course I had to RTFSC. It’s very beautifully written code, and fast too. Enjoy! ✌️

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Falcon Async Ruby Web Server: Read The Friendly Source Code

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BeautifulRuby.com @beautifulruby.com · 10/10/2025

Week 12 update: last video is done! I still have to finish editing, encoding, and uploading, then finish the copy. Prices are still $289 and will go up to $329 when that's all done. beautifulruby.com/articles/phl...

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Phlex on Rails: Week Twelve Update

Videos have been shot & registration is live

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BeautifulRuby.com @beautifulruby.com · 22/09/2025

In this RTFSC I walk through rack, an http request/response abstraction that sits between Ruby web frameworks like Rails & @hanamirb.org and web servers like Falcon & Puma. If you haven’t encountered it yet building Ruby web apps, it’s good to know about it because you will.

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Rack gem: Read the Friendly Source Code

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BeautifulRuby.com @beautifulruby.com · 16/09/2025

I dive into the source for the @phlex.fun gem and rails integration and try to make sense of it in the latest Read The Friendly Source Code, aka: RTFSC. I probably should have busted this apart into two videos because it spans a lot! www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhz_...

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Phlex and Phlex Rails gem: Read The Fantastic Source Code

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BeautifulRuby.com @beautifulruby.com · 06/09/2025

I did a deep dive on @jamie.schembri.me's new Strong Service gem and was impressed with how powerful the gem is for the amount of source is in it, but I was disappointed I couldn't use it in any of my projects because I'm not sure how to procure it. github.com/shkm/strong_...

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Where is the Enterprise Edition? · Issue #2 · shkm/strong_service

Hey, this gem looks great. Solves a lot of problems I've been having with POROs in my apps. One problem, I didn't see a "Call sales" button anywhere so I'm not sure how I can procure this gem and s...

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BeautifulRuby.com @beautifulruby.com · 05/09/2025

I did a deep dive into ActiveRecord Tented source code to answer a few questions: 1. How much of Rails does it touch 2. What databases does it support 3. How does it run migrations? Turns out it touches a lot of Rails. Check it out!

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ActiveRecord Tenanted Review

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Brad Gessler @bradgessler.com · 09/07/2025

Next week I'm going to start publishing videos for the Phlex on Rails course, which means prices will increase from $249 to $289! Great way to soak up any remaining training budget after #RailsConf2025 🤣 This week I'm finishing the last chapter about using Phlex with Turbo. beautifulruby.com

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Phlex on Rails

Build amazing user-interfaces in Rails with Phlex 💪

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Brad Gessler @bradgessler.com · 18/06/2025

My latest @beautifulruby.com code snippet shows how you can abuse Markdown to quickly drop YouTube embeds, etc. into your blog posts via overriding the image tag. I used it in my first post at beautifulruby.com/articles/phl... to share a video update from YouTube. beautifulruby.com/code/embed-y...

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Markdown Image Tags as YouTube and Embed Blocks

Abuse markdown image tags to easily embed YouTube videos and embedded resources in documents

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BeautifulRuby.com @beautifulruby.com · 10/06/2025

What kind of website would I be if I didn't sure beautiful ruby code? Here's the first snippet I ran into building out the markdown parser for what will eventually be the first article: how to inject referral codes straight into Markdown links. 💉🔗 beautifulruby.com/code/markdow...

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Markdown Referral Code

Automatically inject referral codes into markdown content

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