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This one's for Jason Seifer
#726 — November 7, 2024Read on the WebRuby Weeklyjson v2.8: Ruby's JSON Implementation Gets Faster— Ruby’s json is depended on by (almost) everything so updates like this have far reaching...
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Rails 8.0 pulls into the station
#727 — November 14, 2024Read on the Web💎 RubyConf is taking place right now in Chicago – we hope you're having fun if you're there, and look forward to sharing all the news that comes out next week.....
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DHH is screencasting again
#728 — November 21, 2024Read on the Web🦃 As it's Thanksgiving next week, we're taking a break. We don't celebrate it in our country, but we know many of you do, so it seemed a good time for a rest....
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Making Ruby faster with more Ruby and less C
#729 — December 5, 2024Read on the Web🗓️ If you missed last week's issue, don't worry, it didn't exist – we took a week off for Thanksgiving! We're now back all the way through to the Christmas break...
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Ruby 3.4 - almost!
#730 — December 12, 2024Read on the WebRuby WeeklyRuby 3.4.0 Release Candidate 1 Released— Christmas is almost here, and that means the imminent release of Ruby 3.4. If you haven’t played with it yet,...
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Rails unveils some official merch
#731 — December 19, 2024Read on the Web🎄 A mixed bag this week as we cover a few news items but then get into a 2024 roundup of Ruby news and the most clicked items of the year, in case you missed...
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Ruby 3.4, and some sad news
#732 — December 28, 2024Read on the Web🎄 Hi folks. We're not back properly till January 9, 2025, but with Ruby getting its traditional big Christmas Day release, I wanted to drop in and say hi. Sadly,...
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Surprisingly useful Rails console tips
#733 — January 9, 2025Read on the WebHi folks – we're back from our extended holiday break and will now be with you till at least April ;-) I have a lot of email to get through from the break, but if...
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All the language changes in Ruby 3.4
#734 — January 16, 2025Read on the WebRuby WeeklyZverok's Guide to Ruby 3.4's Language Changes— Each year, Victor blesses us with a mammoth roundup of changes that arose in the Ruby language in the...
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Jean's epic journey to optimize Ruby's JSON parsing
#735 — January 23, 2025Read on the WebRuby WeeklyRuby Next: Transpile Modern Ruby Code to Run on Older Versions— An interesting way to get Ruby code written with the latest syntax to run on older...
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Getting rid of Ruby's global VM lock
#736 — January 30, 2025Read on the WebRuby WeeklySo You Want to Remove Ruby's GVL?— The GVL is a CRuby implementation detail that prevents Ruby code from running in parallel across multiple threads,...
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Ruby on Rails on WebAssembly
#737 — February 6, 2025Read on the Web🙏 I wouldn't usually say 'please read this issue' but this is one of the most densely packed ones in a while. There's a real buzz around the Ruby ecosystem right...
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Using JITs for faster FFI in Ruby
#738 — February 13, 2025Read on the WebRuby WeeklyTiny JITs for a Faster FFI— FFI (Foreign Function Interface) lets Ruby call dynamically-linked native libraries, but it can impose a performance tax....
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Notebook-style Ruby coding with Jupyter Notebooks
#739 — February 20, 2025Read on the WebRuby WeeklyRuby 3.4.2 Released— It’s not just Christmas Day when we get new Ruby releases, it seems to have extended to Valentine’s Day too 😍 This is one of the...
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A fresh way to package Ruby apps as binaries
#740 — February 27, 2025Read on the WebRuby WeeklySorbet Adds Support for RBS Comments— Long before RBS was a thing, Sorbet brought type checking to Ruby and it now has (experimental) support for...
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On the state of Ractors in Ruby
#741 — March 6, 2025Read on the WebRuby WeeklyWhat’s the Deal with Ractors?— Introduced in Ruby 3.0, Ractors provide an actor-based, truly parallel (bye GVL!) execution model, but they still remain...
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Sidekiq 8.0
#742 — March 13, 2025Read on the WebRuby WeeklyIntroducing Sidekiq 8.0— Ruby’s most popular background job framework has a new release that adds easy-to-do profiling, a significant overhaul to its...
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Ruby debugging tips for 2025
#743 — March 20, 2025Read on the WebRuby WeeklyRuby Debugging Tips and Recommendations in 2025— A brief piece but packed with advice from Stan (who knows a thing or two from all his work on debug.rb...
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How good different LLMs are at writing Ruby code
#744 — March 27, 2025Read on the WebRuby WeeklyFast MCP: A Ruby Implementation of the Model Context Protocol— MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers enable certain LLM-based agents (such as Claude,...
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RubyUI 1.0
#745 — April 3, 2025Read on the WebRuby WeeklyRubyUI 1.0: Reusable Copy-and-Paste Components for Rails Apps— Formerly known as PhlexUI, RubyUI is a collection of reusable Phlex-powered components you...
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