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Ruby on Rails End of Life: Rails 6.1 EOL, Rails 7.0 EOL — What's Still Supported in 2026

The Rails maintenance policy is lean by design: only the most recent minor version of the most recent two major versions receives security patches . E…

SOLID Principles in Ruby on Rails

SOLID Principles in Ruby on Rails SOLID is not a Rails or Ruby concept. It's a set of five object-oriented design principles that apply to any languag…

TIL 5/27/2026

Spin up from FirstDraft Co-pilot. It's been a while since I've done this, so I'll outline the process. Include devise gem on gemfile bundle install de…

🇺🇸 Glancer — Ask your Rails database questions in plain language

A Rails engine that allows you to query the database using natural language, with RAG and LLMs. No need to write any code. Every Rails project reaches…

TIL 5/22/2026

Rails X XCode Tips When reading commands from a textbook, the \ in the command instruction line is usually just a line continuation in instructions. I…

Why flag_shih_tzu is changing its default SQL for bit flags

flag_shih_tzu stores many boolean attributes in one integer column. Each boolean gets one bit 〰️ well that used to be true 〰️ v1.0.0 supports multi-bi…

I will continue using Devise with Rails 8!

I am developing a boilerplate called SuperRails. Super Rails | Rails Boilerplate for Solopreneurs A production-ready Rails boilerplate with Devise, Av…

Thoughts on Codingame 2026 Spring challenge

Thoughts on Codingame 2026 Spring challenge (Trolls in woods) I liked the challenge a lot, the most enjoyable experience so far! I even reached legend…

yard-yaml 0.1.1: safer UTF-8 handling for YAML documentation

yard-yaml 0.1.1 is available. yard-yaml is a RubyGem that plugs into YARD and helps Ruby projects document YAML files alongside the rest of their API …

yard-fence 0.9.0: cleaner YARD docs when Markdown braces get in the way

🤺 yard-fence 0.9.0 is out. This is the first blog post I have written for the gem, so I will start with the short version: yard-fence is a Ruby gem th…

yard-timekeeper: Stop YARD Timestamp Churn in Checked-In Docs

🕰️ I just released yard-timekeeper v0.1.0, a small RubyGem for Ruby projects that check generated YARD HTML into git. It solves a very specific kind o…

Как сисадмин написал свою библиотеку для Jira на Ruby: история Rujira

Привет, Хабр! Давайте сразу начистоту: я не профессиональный программист . Я системный администратор и DevOps-инженер. Мой день состоит из автоматизац…

Speeding Up the Back End with Graph Theory (2019)

Тонкие контроллеры и модели. Использование паттернов проектирования в Rails-приложении

Вечный спор в среде MVC-фреймворков - что лучше? Толстые модели и тонкие контроллеры или наоборот? Классический подход Rails — “Fat Model, Skinny Cont…

Why Ruby Still Feels Like Home After All These Years

Devise в Ruby on Rails

Авторизация пользователей в создаваемом нами интернет магазине. Отличный гем Devise поможет вам в вопросах добавления разных пользователей на сайт Чит…

The Icon Component I Keep Carrying

Nearly every project I've worked on has, at some point, had to answer the question of inlining SVGs into HTML. I've been refining my approach to this …

Ruby on Rails to App Store, No Swift Required

I always liked tracking my income and expenses. There was an app called Spendee that I used a lot. I liked it. But it felt too complicated for me, so …

Build a Secure API with Rails 8 - Part-2: Authentication Foundations

Hey folks 👋 Welcome back. In Part 1 we walked through the 11 attack vectors that shape every decision in this series. If you skipped it, please go rea…

Set-Based Updates in Rails: 4 Hours to 8 Seconds

I once inherited a background job to deactivate stale users. In production, a job processing 50,000 users that should have taken a minute was taking o…

Embed mruby as a Single Binary That Runs Everywhere

I've been working on RapidForge a self hosted platform that turns scripts into webhooks, pages and scheduled jobs. RapidForge itself ships as a single…

Ractors vs Fibers: Ruby Concurrency Without the Hand-Waving

Ruby has had a concurrency story for years. For most of that time, the story was "threads exist but the GIL means they don't give you parallelism for …

Row-Level Multitenancy in Rails: Building a Bulletproof Tenant Isolation Layer from Scratch

If you've reached for acts_as_tenant or apartment without really understanding what's happening underneath, this tutorial is the correction. We're bui…

Introducing Rubyduino, a Ruby to Arduino UNO compiler based on Matz's Spinel!

Rubyduino compiles Ruby sketches for Arduino boards and uploads the generated firmware. Under the hood it uses Spinel , a Matz's Ruby AOT compiler, ve…

Connecting a Biometric Fingerprint Device to a Rails Web App Using Python — A Complete Walkthrough

👋 Introduction When I was building a gym management system for a real gym in New Delhi, one of the most interesting challenges was connecting a physic…

Build a Secure API with Rails 8 - Part-1

Hi folks👋! In this post I want to share something I wish I had when I started building APIs with Ruby on Rails: a practical guide that takes security …

Blue Ridge Ruby 2026: A Conference About the Long Game

The first morning of Blue Ridge Ruby , John Athayde stood at the front of the YMI Cultural Center and showed us pictures of trees. Forests. His own la…

Обзор Агредатор

На связи Сергей Скирдин, технический директор компании «Белый код». Поставил себе цель — сделать обзоры на шины данных из реестра отечественного ПО. С…

Ace Template: go from `rails new` to deployed in under 5 minutes (self-hosted or PaaS)

Self Referential Associations in Rails - simpler than it sounds

Tbh I had no idea this was even a thing until recently. I've been working with Rails for a while now and somehow never came across it. So let me expla…