Reading up on Ruby on Rails
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- Rails World 2026 Closing Keynote - Aaron Patterson
Aaron Patterson delivers the closing keynote at Rails World 2026, reflecting on Rails' evolution and sharing insights on the framework's future.
- Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]
The Rails World 2026 opening keynote video showcases the newest features, performance improvements, and community direction for the Ruby on Rails framework.
- Pencils Down, Notation Up
The author argues that Rails should stay as the high‑level source of truth for AI agents, even when compiled to C or Rust, because it’s concise, intent‑preserving, and token‑efficient.
- Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote - DHH
DHH’s Rails World 2026 keynote reveals Hey’s backend rewritten in Rust by AI agents, cutting needs from 110 to 10 servers and hinting at Rails’ declining role.
- 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.
- Returning to Rails in 2026
Hacker News commenters debate the merits of Ruby on Rails in 2026, with many praising its conventions and stability while criticizing lack of typing and AI-oriented marketing.
- Show HN: Rails UI
Rails UI offers a subscription-based design system of consistent, pre-built screens and components for Rails apps, aiming to bridge the gap AI can't fix.
- Web development is fun again
In a Hacker News discussion, many commenters report that LLMs have made web development fun again by handling complexity and enabling quick hobby projects.
- Ruby Programming Language
Ruby's redesigned homepage highlights the language's fun, readable syntax, rich gem ecosystem, and supportive community through testimonials from Matz, DHH, and others.
- Response to "Ruby Is Not a Serious Programming Language"
Ruby's value lies in prioritizing programmer joy and expressiveness over technical metrics, enabling business success despite critiques about its seriousness.
Takes
👋 I'm looking for my next role (open to contracts too). ~20 years of Ruby/Rails, plus Swift/iOS and lots of hands-on LLM work. Co-founded Hello Weather; previously 37signals, Clearbit, IFTTT. Chicago or remote. DMs open, or [email protected] ✨
@trevorturk
Every insult and objection to Omarchy is an echo of what I heard twenty years ago with Ruby on Rails. Hundreds of billions of dollars in enterprise value created later, I'm ready for round two.
@dhh
Lexxy is the modern rich text editor for Rails. And now it has a beautiful site with lovely demo front and center. This is the editor we put in Basecamp 5. Such a big level up over Trix. From tables to syntax highlighting. https://lexxy.dev/
@dhh
just ran Claude Fable 5 over @37signals open source Rails code again extracted all the key insights for writing @dhh-like vanilla Rails into reusable guides and skills just drop it in your skills folder and your AI agent will automatically reference it https://github.com/marckohlbrugge/37signals-skills
@marckohlbrugge
The original plan for Fizzy was to ship the SaaS version with one sqlite database per customer. That didn't end up happening, but we built all the Rails infrastructure needed to make it possible. Mike goes through it all here: https://t.co/f285jYyYcc
@dhh
The upcoming https://t.co/6SX7zmEyrA.creds will now also look for .env, which supports command interpolation, so you can fetch keys directly from 1password or the like in development: https://t.co/E3ueHDWGqj
@dhh
As promised: a video talking about how we architect Rails apps and Fizzy. Includes thoughts on Domain Driven Design, service objects, callbacks, and concerns.I will record more of these, but probably not as long! pic.twitter.com/3rMDe7civw
@jorgemanru