RubyConf 2026 watch-along at Colony One Silk St - Manchester Co-Working & Office Space, Manchester on 17th Sep 2026. Buy tickets in just 2-clicks with our super-fast checkout

This month at NWRUG we'll be catching up on one of the talks that happened at this year's RubyConf in Las Vegas: The Anatomy of an ERB Rendering Engine by Ma...

This month Jade Dickinson (https://ruby.social/@jadedickinson) will be showing us how we can leverage Rails' multi-database support to connect and query data...

This month Jade Dickinson (https://ruby.social/@jadedickinson) will be showing us how we can leverage Rails' multi-database support to connect and query data...

This month Jade Dickinson (https://ruby.social/@jadedickinson) will be showing us how we can leverage Rails' multi-database support to connect and query data...

The i18n framework in Rails is full of useful abstractions that can help make your Rails code more maintainable, even when you're not actually translating it.

The i18n framework in Rails is full of useful abstractions that can help make your Rails code more maintainable, even when you're not actually translating it.

My goodness it was hot. https://brightonruby.com/2026

The open source Git project just released Git 2.55. Here is GitHub’s look at some of the most interesting features and changes introduced since last time.

Patterns. Enthusiasm. Adoption.

My goodness.

Across hundreds of Reddit threads and a small body of clinical literature, AI-driven displacement is producing an emotional category that most closely resembles grief, and the institutions causing it ...

Summary Add #default_order and default_order relation option to define a default order which will be used if no other order is specified. This extends the functionality offered by #implicit_order_c...

Summary 53% faster combined parse+render time, 61% fewer object allocations on the ThemeRunner benchmark (real Shopify theme templates with production-like data). Zero test regressions — all 974 un...

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In September 2016, the security journalist Brian Krebs had his website knocked offline by a botnet called Mirai. Hundreds of thousands of compromised devices, mostly cheap webcams and DVRs manufacture...

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Online event – 18 Nov 2025 Tech unions against enshittification, with Cory Doctorow The internet is getting worse by the day, for users and tech workers alike. It’s part of the big tech playbook to de...

This month, Ryan Townsend will be sharing stories about how he started, scaled, and liquidated a Rails-based startup that at its peak reached £5M ARR: Ryan h...

This month, Ryan Townsend will be sharing stories about how he started, scaled, and liquidated a Rails-based startup that at its peak reached £5M ARR: Ryan h...

DHH's politics are not normal. Maybe they used to be, I don't know, but as of right now the dude is_way outside of what most people would consider moral or acceptable.

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The Ruby community can no longer afford to stand silent in the face of DHH and his toxic ideas.

Ages ago, when I was still a student, I taught myself Ruby on Rails for my senior thesis and fell in love. Fifteen years later, and I’ve used Rails at every job I’ve ever held in the tech industry. Fifteen years, and I still love Rails! But there’s something rotten at its core, and we share a name.

This month Steven Harrison will be give us a guided tour of Hotwire Native: I've often seen the requirement of a native application used as a reason to only ...

After last month's Brighton Ruby break we're back for another edition of Ruby in the North West, AKA NWRUG. This month we have our very own Caius (https://ru...

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