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Robby Russell @robbyonrails.com · 21h

Are you using OpenTelemetry (OTel) in your Rails app for anything interesting?

Curious what folks are doing beyond the defaults. What’s been helpful? Surprising? Weirdly satisfying?

I’m prepping for a podcast convo and would love to hear how folks are actually putting this stuff to work.

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Maintainable Software Podcast @maintainable.fm · 1d

📻 Tune in and join @robbyonrails.com and @realntl.bsky.social as they discuss why “perfectly maintained software” might be a platonic ideal rather than a realistic target. 🎯
🎧 Listen here: maintainable.fm/episodes/nat...

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Robby Russell @robbyonrails.com · 1d

Rails has always moved fast. Sometimes too fast.

It gave us bold ideas, best practices that weren't, and features that felt like magic... until they didn't.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjvs...

RailsConf 2025 The Rails Features we Loved, Lost, and Laughed at by Robby Russell

YouTube video by Ruby Central

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Robby Russell @robbyonrails.com · 1d

One of my band's mellow tracks.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5ps...

The Mighty Missoula - The Dreaming Tree

YouTube video by The Mighty Missoula

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Aaron Patterson @tenderlove.dev · 1d

Went to @xoruby.com in Portland, and it was a blast! If you get a chance to go when it's near you, I highly recommend it!

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Robby Russell @robbyonrails.com · 2d

It was great to see you in Portland!

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Robby Russell @robbyonrails.com · 2d

Life goals: www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6RA...

JAM - Funeral Sketch

YouTube video by internet champ

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Robby Russell @robbyonrails.com · 2d

Kudos... you're almost to the starting line!

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Robby Russell @robbyonrails.com · 3d

While browsing through @rubyevents.org, I came across this thoughtful RubyConf 2008 talk by Rein H that'll help everyone keep their jobs, especially in the era of AI.

WATCH IT & PROTECT YOUR JOB

www.rubyevents.org/talks/the-fu...

The Future of Ruby

By: Rein Henrichs

www.rubyevents.org

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Benjamin Wood @benjaminwood.bsky.social · 3d

100% this! So good to see #RubyFriends that I haven’t bumped into in years!

Thank you @jremsikjr.bsky.social for your love and labor bringing XORuby to Portland.

San Diego, you’re up next! Don’t miss it.

Jim Remsik @jremsikjr.bsky.social · 4d

At @xoruby.com Portland today with some old friends, new friends, and a whole lot more connection than is possible over Zoom.

We’re establishing a Return to Conference Policy.

A photo featuring Shane Becker taking a photo of the video camera display with Kayla Roepelle speaking on Open Telemetry.

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Robby Russell @robbyonrails.com · 3d

Was great to sponsor and attend @xoruby.com today in Portland. thanks Jim!

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Robby Russell @robbyonrails.com · 4d

🧅

Robby Russell reading a paper copy of The Onion

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XO Ruby @xoruby.com · 5d

XO Ruby Portland is tomorrow! 🥳🥳 Will we see you there? It's not too late to grab your ticket!

🏙️ Oct. 10/11, 9am - 5pm
🎟️ Grab your ticket for $100: www.xoruby.com/event/portland/

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Robby Russell @robbyonrails.com · 4d

A moment to appreciate the work we do for each other. 💎

I want to thank Tan Le (tancnle) for their work on the rouge gem, which a lot of us rely on for syntax highlighting.

github.com/rouge-ruby/r...

rubygems.org/gems/rouge

Who would you like to thank?

Contributors to rouge-ruby/rouge

A pure Ruby code highlighter that is compatible with Pygments - Contributors to rouge-ruby/rouge

github.com

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Robby Russell @robbyonrails.com · 5d

I think those are called sofas

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Robby Russell @robbyonrails.com · 5d

Ruby Central’s made some tough… and yeah, rough… calls lately.
I still think they deserve a second act.

robbyonrails.com/articles/202...

Organizations, Like Code, Deserve Refactoring | Robby on Rails

I’ve been thinking about what happens when open source organizations hit their breaking point… when funding dries up, relationships fracture, and everyone’s ...

robbyonrails.com

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Robby Russell @robbyonrails.com · 5d

Proud to be a Portlander!

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 5d

This is the genius of the Portland protests - they make the claims of lawlessness look not just wrong, but comical

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 5d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Robby Russell @robbyonrails.com · 5d

I want my two dollars... worth of brain cells back from following this story.

Better Off Dead meme: Character on ski slope asking about the street value of gem download logs (parody of the 'pure snow' scene)

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Robby Russell @robbyonrails.com · 7d

Who is heading to GitHub Universe later this month in SF?

I'll be there helping represent @ohmyz.sh in the open source fun time zone, or whatever they're calling it this year. 🙃

Also, who needs a hat?

shop.planetargon.com/collections/...

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Jean Boussier @byroot.bsky.social · 8d

This is by far the most sensible take ever since all this mess started.

Glad there are still some people capable making the difference between unsubstantiated conspiracy theories and proper reporting of facts.

Thank you ❤️

Code and the Coding Coders who Code it @codingcoders.bsky.social · 8d

🎙️ New (Bonus) Episode of Code and the Coding Coders who Code it, with @andrewm.codes and @chaelcodes.bsky.social

podcast.drbragg.dev/episodes/rub...

#ruby #Rails #code #coding #coders #podcast #rubycentral #bundler #rubygems

Ruby’s Trustquake

We talk about Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, and everything in between. From tiny tips to bigger challenges we take on 3 questions a show; What are you working on? What's blocking you? What's something cool...

podcast.drbragg.dev

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Robby Russell @robbyonrails.com · 8d

Pitch a guest for @maintainable.fm. Go!

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Robby Russell @robbyonrails.com · 8d

Maybe I should have Jim on @maintainable.fm

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Robby Russell @robbyonrails.com · 8d

So they hit pause, revisited the basics, and started stripping away what wasn’t helping.

This is a case study in technical maturity. A story of how slowing down just enough can help a fast-moving team go further. Worth sharing with your coworkers.

Robby Russell @robbyonrails.com · 8d

Florent's team at Doctolib realized their test suite wasn’t just slowing down developers...it was draining focus, momentum, and budget.

The root cause? Decisions that quietly piled up over time. Too many factories. Skipped Rails defaults. A bloated CI setup.

Robby Russell @robbyonrails.com · 8d

Delighted to share this deep dive into how Doctolib's team has been speeding up their test suite...when they have 10 databases, 84k tests, with over 3M LOC.

onrails.buzzsprout.com/2462975/epis...

Florent Beaurain: Optimizing Rails Tests at Doctolib Scale - On Rails

In this episode of On Rails, Robby is joined by Florent Beaurain, a longtime Rails engineer at Doctolib, home to one of the largest Rails monoliths in Europe with over 3 million lines of code and 400+...

onrails.buzzsprout.com

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Robby Russell @robbyonrails.com · 8d

Also over on Youtube

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMO3...

Florent Beaurain: Optimizing Rails Tests at Doctolib Scale

YouTube video by Ruby on Rails

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