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André Arko @indirect.io · 10d

announcing a new community-focused gem server from the team previously behind rubygems: gem.coop. join us and start using it today!

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Jake Lazaroff @jakelazaroff.com · 14d

show this to anyone else you know who also assumed DHH was just a normal conservative dude rather than a raging white supremacist lunatic

DHH Is Way Worse Than I Thought | jakelazaroff.com

DHH's politics are not normal. Maybe they used to be, I don't know, but as of right now the dude is_way outside of what most people would consider moral or acceptable.

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Kuba Suder 🇵🇱🇺🇦 @mackuba.eu · 20d

"David, please stop posting" 💯 #rubylang

David, please stop posting - Johan Halse

Let's be realistic: DHH isn't going anywhere. He owns the trademarks, he controls the Rails Foundation, he sits on the board of Shopify, and he doesn't give a shit about you. In fact, he s...

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Hans Schnedlitz @hansschnedlitz.com · 20d

TIL about Concurrent::Map compute_if_present. This method provides a simple interface to concurrently re-calculate a map value if it's key is present.

Found this in the Solid Cable Source 🕵️

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david celis @davidcel.is · 23d

Simi just wrote up an announcement that he’s done cooperating RubyCentral and it’s another very important read in this whole situation. Notably, he confirms everything in Joel Drapper’s write-up that’s already been circulating and really puts Ruby Central on blast.

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rc-wtf.md · GitHub

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Joel Drapper 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @joel.drapper.me · 23d

After listening to about a dozen first-hand accounts, I’ve published what I know about the RubyGems takeover.

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.

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Hans Schnedlitz @hansschnedlitz.com · 22d

TIL Minitest has a pride mode, so you can show your *fabulous* testing pride 🌈

Apparently, this has been a thing for forever; I just came across this now, digging through command line options.

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Hans Schnedlitz @hansschnedlitz.com · 23d

I don't know how I'd work without the internet lol

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Hans Schnedlitz @hansschnedlitz.com · 23d

Great summary of the Ruby Central Drama over the last week.

@joel.drapper.me may not be a professional journalist but he writes like one 👌

Joel Drapper 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @joel.drapper.me · 23d

After listening to about a dozen first-hand accounts, I’ve published what I know about the RubyGems takeover.

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.

joel.drapper.me

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Hans Schnedlitz @hansschnedlitz.com · 23d

Catching up on Rails World talks 👀

Loved @ealpawels.bsky.social talk on MCP. Pretty motivated to add that to my next Rails app now 😁

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Hans Schnedlitz @hansschnedlitz.com · 23d

I waste way too much time binging random crap on Youtube. If I need downtime, I might just as well watch something useful, right?

I think I found a hack to help with that.

Now I just redirect to RubyEvents and watch some talk 😅

#ruby

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Hans Schnedlitz @hansschnedlitz.com · 24d

In case you missed it, browserslist now supports baseline out of the box. No need for `browserslist-config-baseline` anymore 👌

web.dev/blog/browser...

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Browserslist now supports Baseline | Blog | web.dev

Browserslist has added support for Baseline queries. Find out what that could mean for your developer workflow.

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Brandon Weaver @baweaver.bsky.social · 25d

When considering any incident it is valuable to consider all perspectives and remember that at the end of the day we all love ruby and want it to succeed.

apiguy.substack.com/p/a-board-me...

A board member's perspective of the RubyGems controversy

What a week it's been as a Ruby Central Board Member.

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david celis @davidcel.is · 27d

Ages ago, when I was still a student, I taught myself Ruby on Rails for my senior thesis and fell in love. Fifteen years later, and I’ve used Rails at every job I’ve ever held in the tech industry. Fifteen years, and I still love Rails! But there’s something rotten at its core, and we share a name.

Rails Needs New Governance

Ages ago, when I was still a student, I taught myself Ruby on Rails for my senior thesis and fell in love. Fifteen years later, and I’ve used Rails at every job I’ve ever held in the tech industry. Fifteen years, and I still love Rails! But there’s something rotten at its core, and we share a name.

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Jared Norman @jardo.dev · 26d

I've done my best to summarize the situation and offer my initial thoughts here: skillissue.jardo.dev/archive/ruby...

Complicated

Today's Skill Issue contains no whimsy. Sorry. When I started writing it, the discourse (I hate using that phrase) was focused on DHH's latest round of...

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André Arko @indirect.io · 27d

oof, what a disappointing way to end more than 15 years of open source work. (summary by @duckinator.bsky.social at pup-e.com/goodbye-ruby...). good luck to the remaining RubyGems team, and it’s time to focus my energy on new projects that I’m truly excited about, like rv.dev

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Hans Schnedlitz @hansschnedlitz.com · 29d

Sometimes it's okay to be a bit lazy. Nobody can give 110% all of the time 🤷

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Hans Schnedlitz @hansschnedlitz.com · 29d

I'm looking into Inertia and evaluating various frontend options.

Vue. Looks decent.

Svelte. Looks sick, I like it.

React. WTF, how is anyone without a PHD supposed to work on this? The merchants of complexity are at it again, I guess 🤯

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Hans Schnedlitz @hansschnedlitz.com · Sep 8

This takes me way back.

A couple of years ago I took a test suite from 24 min down to 8. The issues where much the same. Lots of redundant data setup, logging and lack of isolation.

The more things change the more they stay the same, I guess?

#ruby

The Whop chop: how we cut a Rails test suite and CI time in half—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog

Evil Martians cut Whop’s Rails test suite and CI time in half using profiling, factory optimizations, and parallelization. Learn how we speed up tests and boost reliability.

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Hans Schnedlitz @hansschnedlitz.com · Sep 3

Strong Service is Strong. We need more gems like this that push the boundary of what's possible.

But I have to say, this much touted DSL looks suspiciously like plain old Ruby 🕵️

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Hans Schnedlitz @hansschnedlitz.com · Sep 3

I've been working on a variety of map-related projects recently and needed some sample images for locations.

Wrote this little script to pull a bunch of street view images. Dead simple.

Yeah, the resolution isn't great, but it's good enough for seeds 👌

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Jamie Schembri @jamie.schembri.me · Sep 2

Finally made a gem that implements all the features I use when working with service objects.

github.com/shkm/strong_...

GitHub - shkm/strong_service: The best Service Object Ruby gem.

The best Service Object Ruby gem. Contribute to shkm/strong_service development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Hans Schnedlitz @hansschnedlitz.com · Sep 2

Just registered for @thoughtbot Open Summit 2025!

See you there?

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Announcing thoughtbot Open Summit 2025: Leading the way in Rails and beyond

The Ruby community thrives when we build together. On October 31, our free, virtual Summit brings developers, maintainers, and teams worldwide into one space to ship real contributions and make your…

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Hans Schnedlitz @hansschnedlitz.com · Sep 2

Some weeks, you feel like you can't get anything done. Some weeks, you're absolutely crushing it.

It took me some years (decades?) to reach a point where I could accept that.

If you're in a slump, that's fine. Don't be hard on yourself. It'll get better.

Hans Schnedlitz @hansschnedlitz.com · Sep 2

There's a bunch of plugins you can use. I use the eslint and stylint plugins.

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GitHub - browserslist/browserslist: 🦔 Share target browsers between different front-end tools, like Autoprefixer, Stylelint and babel-preset-env

🦔 Share target browsers between different front-end tools, like Autoprefixer, Stylelint and babel-preset-env - browserslist/browserslist

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