ruby
#Ruby / #RubyLang picks of the day:
➡️ @ruby - Official account of Ruby programming language
➡️ @matz - Creator of Ruby
➡️ @rubycentral - Non-profit in US supporting Ruby community, organises RubyConf & RailsConf
➡️ @rooftop - Podcast about Ruby etc
➡️ @hanami - FOSS full-stack Ruby web framework
➡️ @bridgetown - Ruby FOSS progressive site generator & full-stack framework
➡️ @ronin_rb - FOSS Ruby toolkit for security research
➡️ @wnb_rb - Meetings for women & non-binary Ruby users
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Okay, sports fans, I've restored 4.3.9 on my private server. Yay!
The problem was that I had updated ruby. That caused local extensions to not be found. The solution was to do this:
gem pristine --all
and enjoy a cup of coffee. The errors stopped, everything was happy again, & I restarted the servers.
I'll pin this one on both servers for a while to spread the solution for "Source locally installed gems is ignoring [whatever] because it is missing extensions."
🍽️ Tonight's #RailsConf #WNB_rb dinner is happening! We will be gathering at Victory Brewery at 7:00pm!
This year’s dinner isn’t sponsored, but we can reimburse up to $25 of your meal if cost is a barrier.
As always, anyone who identifies as a woman or nonbinary person is welcome, and we ask that everyone follows the WNB.rb Code of Conduct https://docs.google.com/document/d/1e_AuYVtvHi_Mvijga6T0YxrnpDSoJtuz0R20IMliG_I/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.387gnfti0khh
We’d love to see you there! 💖
#ruby #rails #railsconf #railsconf2025
📣 Happy to announce that Prismo is back from the dead and back in development! Demo instance will be opened soon so stay tuned :)
Also, don’t hesitate to join our matrix room to discuss (linked on our profile)
🚀 WNB.rb Meetup Alert! 🚀
Join us Tuesday, August 26th at Noon Eastern for "Spinning Multiple Plates: A Guide to Concurrency in Rails" with Harriet Oughton!
Ever wondered how Rails keeps your app performant behind the scenes? Harriet will peel back the curtain on Rails magic and show us the threading and concurrency that powers it all.
Senior developer at Zivio + Rails Foundation contractor
🔗 Join us: https://discord.gg/ZuRU2WQG?event=1407366305480183830
🤖 WNB.rb Meetup Alert!
Join us Tuesday, September 30th at Noon Eastern for "Thoughtful AI for the Rubyist" with @christine!
Ever wondered how to make AI work for you without losing that Ruby magic? Christine will show us how to integrate AI tools into our Ruby workflow while keeping our code elegant and intentional.
Ruby enthusiast + lifetime learner - Christine brings practical wisdom with a bit of humor or at least she thinks so 😉
🔗 Join us: https://discord.gg/bd9ZHBB8?event=1414956005699096686
Programming/coding people, need your advice.
It looks like very nasty things have been going on in the Ruby world lately with DHH's vile behaviour (https://tekin.co.uk/2025/09/the-ruby-community-has-a-dhh-problem) and the bizarre takeover of RubyGems (https://pup-e.com/goodbye-rubygems.pdf).
I've removed Ruby Central & official Ruby account from Fedi.Directory but left other Ruby accounts listed.
Is this okay? Are grassroots Ruby people decent, problems are with the leadership? Or is using Ruby inherently problematic?
WNB.rb October Meetup!
Join us Tuesday, October 28th at 1PM Eastern for two fantastic talks:
Life On Rails Edge: Takeaways for Knockout Upgrades by Jill Klang
Music composition with Ruby by Sandra Kpodar
From fearless Rails upgrades to composing music in Ruby, this meetup blends practical engineering with creative exploration.
Join us on Discord: https://discord.gg/fFT3wmvJFt
#Ruby #Rails #Upgrades #MusicTech #WomenInTech #WNBrb #nonbinaryInTech
Should I plan to submit some papers to @rubyconf when the CFPs open?
Options: (choose one)
It doesn’t matter whether “Matz is nice”
https://po-ru.com/2026/07/29/it-doesnt-matter-whether-matz-is-nice
#ruby #blog
Y’hear that rumbling? Feel it? That's the seismic shift which just happened, because today…
The Bridgetown #Ruby #WebDev framework just launched our first first-party theme. 🤯
Introducing Willamette.
It's a feature-filled, highly-customizable, “from the creators who brought you Bridgetown” website theme designed initially for text-based web publishing…but we’re just getting started! 🥳
Read all the deets, try out the public beta, and let us know what you think.
https://willamette.bridgetownrb.com/2026/05/26/introducing-willamette-first-party-bridgetown-theme/
A sneak peak of another #activitypub project I'm working on - @pppond - a different way of social bookmarking. Coming soon!
Join the conversation here, there is a lot to discuss and figure out: https://matrix.to/#/#pppapp:matrix.org
#fediverse #fedidev #ruby #pppdev
I am looking for a remote job, and I finally updated my profile page: https://godfat.org and updated my resume (which I am not posting in public because I tweak it for each applications). So far I only formally applied one but I could apply more.
A short highlight of me:
* 20 years of Ruby experience, mainly on web backend development
* 6 years of engineering productivity (overlapped)
* Open to new stacks
Earlier post: https://mastodon.social/@godfat/115450899941785792
Bridgetown is a pillar of the #Ruby ecosystem, powering sites ranging from RuboCop to Sidekiq to Lookbook, many conference sites, and a whole lot of blogs & portfolios.
We are counting on your direct financial support to help keep Bridgetown stable & well-maintained long into the future.
Currently we're not close to reaching our Q2 2026 fundraising goal, with only two weeks left.
Please consider becoming a sponsor (both PayPal & Stripe supported via Liberapay) today!
@w3c recharters its Internationalization #WorkingGroup through March 2029
▶️ https://www.w3.org/International/groups/wg/charter-2026.html
The group's new work includes HTML Ruby Markup Extensions (better support for phonetic annotations), Ruby Text-to-Speech (#a11y support for #ruby annotations) and Message Resources (for easier localization) #i18n @webi18n
📢 If you believe the Web should speak your language, join or rejoin the group!
https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/i18n-core/join/
I'm starting the process of looking for new employment, either consulting or full time.
I have ~20 years experience as a software developer, the last half of which has been in and around fintech. Would love to find a gig where I can truly have impact on the product and by helping less experienced developers level up.
https://www.petekeen.net/resume
Please boost!