Ruby Programming Language

kept by eddie dec 20, 25

Ruby's redesigned homepage highlights the language's fun, readable syntax, rich gem ecosystem, and supportive community through testimonials from Matz, DHH, and others.

Ruby 4.0.0 Preview2
Ruby 4.0.0 preview2 introduces Unicode 17.0 support, an experimental ZJIT compiler, and language changes like `*nil` no longer calling `nil.to_a`.
also on Yukihiro Matsumoto, Ruby, #programming-languages, #open-source
rv plan and progress update
rv is a fast Ruby manager that precompiles Rubies, manages gems, and aims to match uv's speed, with recent progress on clean-install, tool management, and multi-platform support.
also on Bundler, Ruby, #open-source
What Active Rubyists Are Using in 2026: A Maintainer's Read of the RubyKaigi Survey - DEV Community
A maintainer's analysis of RubyKaigi 2026 survey data reveals that Ruby 4.0 adoption matches 3.4 within six months, Claude Code dominates at 80% usage, and VS Code/Cursor lead editors while mise/asdf challenge rbenv.
also on Bundler, Ruby
37signals Isn't Smarter Than You, But They Are Different
37signals achieves clean code by keeping teams small, cutting scope, and hiring top engineers, a strategy most companies cannot adopt due to feature-driven revenue models.
also on David Heinemeier Hansson
One year of Ruby on Rails configuration
A senior Rails developer shares the accumulated configuration, monkeypatches, and custom types in a one-year-old production app, covering booleans, time zones, UUIDv7, I18n, Turbo streams, and View Components.
also on Ruby on Rails, #user-experience