David's keynote was sure where Rails is heading and quiet on how we get there. The rest of Rails World had better answers.
What About Rails? | Jared Norman
DHH's opening keynote had shockingly little to say about Rails.
The impact of the late majority
When Ruby on Rails first got going, I spent a lot of time contrasting code with the folks in Javaland. Rails had drawn substantial…
The Pulse: RoR creator sparks new “death of coding by hand” debate
37signals – the creator of Ruby on Rails (RoR) – moves over to agents generating nearly all its code. Also: Amazon and Meta struggle to hire engineers, code reviews will probably also go away and more
How I Made $220,033.50 Self-Publishing a Book About Ruby on Rails
Did I mention how awesome it is to live 30 minutes from a ski lift?In March of 2016, I launched a course called The Complete Guide to Rails Performance. Sinc...
It Takes All Kinds
After reading a blog post provocatively called “Today I accept that Rails is yesterday’s software” I felt the need to reply. I’m not sure why, I’m not going to convince anyone of anything, definitely not the author of that post. I want to reply because Rails is my current platform of choice, and let’s be honest, seeing […]
rails | RubyGems.org | your community gem host
Ruby on Rails is a full-stack web framework optimized for programmer happiness and sustainable productivity. It encourages beautiful code by favoring convention over configuration.
Introducing Helix
Rust + Ruby, Without The Glue. This post is a write-up of the talk I gave at RailsConf 2016. You can find the slides [https://speakerdeck.com/chancancode/turbo-rails-with-rust] here. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There's a lot to love about Ruby – the sweet syntax, the focus on developer productivity and
Rails Conf 2012 Keynote: Simplicity Matters by Rich Hickey
Ted Nelson on Pernicious Computer Traditions
Kill Your Dependencies
This post talks about Ruby but it’s true of every language community: Python, JavaScript, Java, etc. The scourge of dependencies spares no one. This is a dependency visualization of every Rails app I’ve ever used. Does any of this sound familiar: Gemfile with 100s of entries. Test gems loading in production. Each Rails process takes 100s of megabytes of RAM. The Rubygems system is commendable for how easy it makes packaging up Ruby for others to reuse. But that very ease means it’s also quite easy for those gems to pull in other gems transitively, leading to Rails apps which “download the Internet” and have hundreds of dependencies.
Meet Sean Marcia, founder of Ruby for Good
To highlight the people behind projects we admire, we bring you the GitHub Developer Profile blog series. If you know Sean Marcia, chances are that it’s through Ruby for Good,…
Open source to closed doors: RubyGems control fight erupts
: Ruby Central is accused of ousting maintainers from core gems under pressure from Shopify
Visionary lays into the web
Ted Nelson is a visionary who is credited with coining the term hypertext, but he is highly critical of what the internet has become.
Power grab
Omarchy should not matter. But sadly it does. As a power grab. If you don’t know what Omarchy is here’s the short summary. David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of RubyOnRails, owner of a software business and millionaire, decided a few months ago to go all in on Linux and – because that’s just his MO – […]
Gemstone Systems
not the dev part, that part's honestly fine.1 we're talking about the everything else part.
