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A recent Rails addition lets in_order_of group several values into one sort position. Build a support queue that floats active work to the top and sinks finished tickets, all in one query.

This is an adapted excerpt from Chapter 15 of Modular Rails: Architecture for the Long Game, my book on building maintainable Ruby on Rails applications usin...

AI is changing software development, yet Ruby on Rails remains one of the best frameworks for building reliable, cost-effective custom web applications.

Give a team one prompt. Watch them completely diverge. The differences reveal something most product teams never talk about.

We compare neo-graph databases, Postgres, LadybugDB, and DuckDB, to understand the user experience and general performance.

I recently realized that the way I learned Ruby on Rails ten years ago is now completely obsolete.

Building complex objects in Ruby with composition and modules as roles, and knowing when each one beats inheritance for your design.

Learn how technical debt creeps into Rails apps through structure, legacy gems, and quick fixes — and what teams can do to manage it strategically.

Thoughts and learnings on writing better software

Practical workflows for Ruby on Rails developers: model selection, RSpec/Minitest, debugging, and CLAUDE.md conventions. From Planet Argon's real experiments.

Earlier this year, we were in conversations with a potential client about a vehicle history lookup tool- a web app where dealers and buyers could enter a VIN...

Large Rails apps often ship CSS bloated with unused framework classes. Learn how to add PurgeCSS to your asset pipeline to strip dead styles and speed up page loads.

A designer and an engineer shipped a production MVP in four weeks on Rails + Inertia. In this post, we share our agentic coding stack, the skills we built, and why it clicked.

How to decide whether to add a Ruby gem dependency or build it yourself: five factors to check for sustainable, maintainable, and secure Rails applications.

Most supply-chain attacks against RubyGems exploit a narrow window: an account is compromised, a malicious version ships, and any bundle install in the minutes that follow resolves straight to it. ...

Ruby Stack News — by Germán Silva There's a quiet revolution happening in developer tooling, and it doesn't require a cloud subscription, an API key, or sending your proprietary code to someone else's server. Over the past few months I've been experimenting with running large language models entirel

A pragmatic pattern for wiring LLMs into a Rails app: base class, ERB prompts, two-level tests, and context strategies.

AI made me faster, then it made me chaotic. Here's how I learned to run multiple agents without burning out.

Create dynamic, white-label themes using Tailwind CSS color palettes and OKLCH color space. Change your app's entire color scheme with a single CSS variable.

How I keep a live multiplayer game consistent with PostgreSQL holding the truth and Redis doing the fast work

Event-Driven by Oskar Dudycz

Most developers think that "progress" means adding lines of code. We feel good when we finish a new...

Process inbound emails from any email provider using Fuik.

Progressive enhancement hasn’t caught on nearly as much as it should. It’s likely related to folks not being able to envision it working in their real world contexts. This post attempts to alleviate that and reignite the conversation.

AI-assisted code generation is not free. It comes with a hidden cost: burnout. Are we dangerously ignorant to this problem? And how can we cope with it? In this post, we discuss this question.