Ruby on Rails is a web framework that contains many libraries you’d need to create and deploy a successful web application. We often take for granted the ability to run rails new to create a fully functional web application with tons of built-in features.
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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.
Shopify, pulling strings at Ruby Central, forces Bundler and RubyGems takeover
Ruby Central recently took over a collection of open source projects from their maintainers without their consent.
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.
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
Ruby on Rails and Bauhaus — Vinicius Brasil
What an art school from 1919 has to do with a web framework.
Open source to closed doors: RubyGems control fight erupts
: Ruby Central is accused of ousting maintainers from core gems under pressure from Shopify
Look at all the things he's not doing
David's keynote was sure where Rails is heading and quiet on how we get there. The rest of Rails World had better answers.
Shopify and the Power of Platforms
It is all but impossible to beat an Aggregator head-on, as Walmart is trying to do with Amazon. The solution instead is to build a platform like Shopify.
Who owns an open source project? – RubyGems threatens to split
In the open source world, the popular programming language Ruby is experiencing a fierce controversy over critical infrastructure control.
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…
Spotlight on Shopify | Code w/ Claude
ATProto Ruby SDK
A set of libraries for building and accessing AT Protocol services in Ruby
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
What About Rails? | Jared Norman
DHH's opening keynote had shockingly little to say about Rails.
Installing ZSH
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