On bottlenecks, low standards, and calculators.

I joined David to discuss the project's origins and the need for a persistent gathering place for the Ruby community. We explored the value of cross-pollination across the Ruby ecosystem, and the challenge of growing a young community until it becomes increasingly self-sustaining. At the end, we talked about what comes next for the Ruby User Forum, how developers and companies can support it, and why the Ruby community should continue creating, experimenting, and doing things simply because it's fun. Go check it out: The Ruby User Forum with Javier CervantesJavier Cervantes, co-creator of the Ruby User Forum, joins me to discuss the limitations of Slack, Discord, and fragmented social media, the importance of connecting developers and open-source maintainers, and why talking with other people still matters in an increasingly AI-driven world.The Ruby on Rails PodcastDavid Hill

Sidereal, a Ruby toolkit for command-driven, reactive and multi-player apps I’m building, has some features to show. While it’s still work in progress, I wanted to share a few interesting (to me) impl...

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Ever since Piccalilli started to get traction, I’ve always seen CSS-Tricks, Smashing Magazine and A List Apart (among others) as peers. We all help each other behind the scenes and importantly, back each other. When CSS-Tricks was initially acquired by DigitalOcean, I was really happy for Chris. The work that he’d put into that publication […]

Ruby is a beautiful programming language that balances functional programming with imperative programming with ideas inspired from other languages (Perl, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Ada, and Lisp). If you want to take a deep dive into its fundamentals and learn more about what makes Ruby a favourite tool for programmers, below is a list of recommended books to start your journey. ### Learn to program A thorough, but lighthearted approach that teaches you the fundamentals of computer programming, with a minimum of fuss or bother. Whether you are interested in a new hobby or a new career, this book is your doorway into the world of programming. ### Programming Ruby 3.3 (5th Edition) The Pickaxe Book, named for the tool on the cover, is the definitive reference on Ruby, a highly-regarded, fully object-oriented programming language. This updated edition is a comprehensive reference on the language itself, with a tutorial on the most important features of Ruby. ### Learn Enough Ruby to be Dangerous Designed to get you started writing practical and modern Ruby programs as fast as possible, with a focus on the real tools used every day by software developers. ### Practical Object-Oriented Design (An Agile Primer Using Ruby) This book is a programmers tale about how to write object-oriented code. It explains object-oriented design (OOD) using realistic, understandable examples. POODR is a practical, readable introduction to how OOD can lower your costs and improve your applications. ### The Well-Grounded Rubyist, Fourth Edition For over fifteen years, _The Well-Grounded Rubyist_ has taught beginner and developing Ruby programmers the veteran secrets of Ruby. This new fourth edition of the groundbreaking classic goes beyond syntax and commands into how a Rubyist really thinks. ### Eloquent Ruby, Second Edition Write better, clearer, more focused Ruby code by becoming truly fluent in the language. To express yourself eloquently in any language, you need to go beyond its vocabulary and syntax.

Quine Clique is a quine written in Ruby: a program that prints itself. Ask it for Python, and it prints a Python quine instead. Or a JavaScript quine. Or a Rust quine. Or a C quine. Or any of 50 langu...

An object oriented view layer for Hanami. Write views, layouts, and components as Phlex classes instead of templates. - aaronmallen/phlex-hanami

I’m struggling to get a Bundler setup working properly, and I suspect that there’s a vital early step somewhere that I’ve forgotten, or an important piece of understanding that I’m missing. So please,...

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The controversy surrounds David Heinemeier Hansson, who has posted strident anti-vax and anti-immigrant views.

Another month has gone by, and it’s time for a recap of what happened. We already have 435 members as of today, and we had more than 20k pageviews this month. This month, we welcomed more open-source...

In previous guides, we covered how to install any Ruby version using either mise or rv. If you’re already using mise and would like to try rv, you can install it by running this command: mise use aqu...

💎💨 Extremely fast Ruby version and gem manager. Contribute to spinel-coop/rv development by creating an account on GitHub.

If you already know some of the fundamentals of the Ruby language, but you want to get some hands-on experience to expand your skills, I suggest taking a look at the following tools/platforms: Ruby...

This is a wild project which takes your rails application and translates it into C#, Crystal, Elixir, Go, Kotlin, Python, Rust, Swift, and TypeScript. It also translates it into magic-less ruby which is incredibly verbose but runs faster and is more JIT friendly. He claims it also runs under spinel which means you could compile it to a binary. Crazy project.

Hello! Lately, I’ve been doing some explorations about <span class="hashtag-icon-placeholder"></span>deployment</span> options for Ruby, so I’m curious to learn more about what you’re using to deploy ...

“In code like in life, healthy relationships should have respectful boundaries.” Week two of our sponsorship drive.

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• This week I kicked off our Hanakai sponsorship drive for 2026, and shared an exciting new stretch goal — if we can raise another $15k for this year, we’ll...

When you’re getting started it’s easy to get lost or you can get stuck when trying to work on an exercise or project. If you want to learn the ruby fundamentals, check out the getting-started tag, bu...

Getting Started With Rack This guide demonstrates how to create a basic Rack application and run it using a Rack-compliant web server. puma.

I think we all agree that Ruby meetups deserve a larger audience . But did you know there is an open source platform that any Ruby user group can use when they need a place to host their events, regi...

💎💨 Extremely fast Ruby version and gem manager. Contribute to spinel-coop/rv development by creating an account on GitHub.