Team Management

How I Hunted Down 23 N+1 Queries in a Rails App With Claude Code

TL;DR Our Rails app's p95 response time had crept from 280 ms to 1.4 s over a year, and nobody could say why. I paired with Claude Code for four day…

Ruby всё ещё в продакшене. Но кто будет писать на нём через 10 лет?

Rails получает релизы, большие системы работают, но вход в профессию сузился: рынку нужны middle и senior, а мест, где ими становятся, заметно меньш…

I Tested Rails Baseline by Leaving Architecture Out of the Prompt

Note: Rails Baseline is the production-ready Rails foundation I tested here. It gives a new SaaS application and the coding agents working in it cle…

Tooling every AI software harness should have

When an agent writes the code, you stop reading every line. You can pretend otherwise for a while, but on any real codebase you end up skimming a 60…

When a build breaks, the bug fixes itself

When a build breaks, the bug fixes itself We stopped babysitting CI failures. Now a red build files its own bug — and an AI agent picks it up and sh…

Built a Blog App with Rails & PostgreSQL – Looking for Code Review!

Hey DEV community! 👋 I've been working on a Blog Application built with Ruby on Rails to practice backend architecture, clean code standards, and Ra…

Tired of JS for simple UI in Ruby?

Meet web_ruby_ui — write reactive client-side SPAs using 100% pure Ruby via WebAssembly. Features state management & VDOM diffing. Give it a try…

Rails is done

One Rails request, one event: production context for coding agents

Wide Events is a Rails gem that puts the production context a coding agent needs onto one OpenTelemetry root span per request or job. In one product…

3 Action Mailer Features I Didn't Know Existed

A few weeks ago I needed to check something in the Action Mailer docs, just a quick lookup. I ended up spending much more time there than expected a…

🇺🇸 What if there was an admin interface built on top of RubyUI? That's how RubyUI Admin was born.

We're living in an exciting time for software development. With AI, generating code, exploring ideas, and building new projects has never been easie…

Solid Queue has no alerting, so I built QueuePulse

Rails 8 made Solid Queue the default Active Job backend, and it's excellent: database-backed, no Redis, and Mission Control Jobs gives you a dashboa…

Kiro for Ruby: Generating Rails Controllers and Models

You want to add a new resource to your Rails app. You know the drill — rails generate , tweak the migration, add validations, write the controller a…

Rails GuardDog: Advanced Security Scanner for Rails Applications

Rails GuardDog: Advanced Security Scanner for Rails Introduction Today I'm excited to announce Rails GuardDog v0.1.0 — an open-source security scann…

RubyConf has joined RailsConf & RailsWorld as another exclusive discriminatory unexcellent conference

(Originally published as this blog post: https://andymaleh.blogspot.com/2026/06/rubyconf-has-joined-railsconfrailsworld.html ) RubyConf has joined R…

🇺🇸 3 Essential Gems to Eliminate Friction in Your Rails Workflow

Anyone who works with Ruby on Rails knows that, despite the framework being incredible for productivity, there are some classic workflow deficiencie…

How to Pause and Resume Ruby Workflows Mid-Flight

Ruby Reactor 0.4.0 introduces interrupts — the first native saga pause/resume mechanism in the Ruby ecosystem. You've built a checkout flow. The use…

I built rails-persona — behavioral analytics for Rails with zero external services

The problem Every SaaS app eventually needs to answer the same questions: Which features do my users actually use? Who are my most active users? Whe…

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…