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  4 June 2025

Shopify Has Been Bad for the Ruby Community in the Last 10 Years

Ever since I took over the Montreal.rb Ruby Meetup 3 years ago, Shopify, which has presence in Montreal (Quebec, Canada), hasn’t volunteered a single Ruby/Rails talk nor bothered to contact me to just say Hi and check if I need sponsorship or anything to demonstrate they care about the local Ruby community. Other companies with far less resources have reached out to me to offer talks or sponsorship though, so Shopify has zero excuses here. Shopify lost a lot of merit points because of this… https://andymaleh.blogspot.com/2025/06/shopify-has-been-bad-for-ruby-community.html

  3 June 2025

🚀 Ruby Just Got Faster – Discover the Power of Fast Allocations in Ruby 3.5 🚀

In the world of high-performance web applications, every millisecond counts. The latest update to Ruby 3.5 introduces a game-changing optimization: fast object allocations that significantly reduce memory overhead and boost performance—especially for frameworks like Rails. In this article, we dive into how Ruby 3.5 is redefining speed and efficiency, what it means for large-scale Rails applications, and why this update matters for developers aiming to build faster, leaner, and more scalable systems. [more inside]

Internator: automate your PRs with OpenAI Codex

Internator is a Ruby CLI that, with one command, sends your diff to OpenAI Codex, applies a single incremental change per iteration, auto-generates and commits & pushes with an AI-crafted message, and repeats until your objectives are met (or you hit Ctrl+C).

  2 June 2025

Cloudflare Turnstile for spam prevention in Rails

Deploying an application to production is usually an enriching experience: real people can use and enjoy what you’ve built. Unfortunately, bad actors are a part of the internet and can be harmful if left uncontrolled. In this article, we will learn how to add Cloudflare Turnstile to a Rails application to prevent or mitigate unwanted or malicious requests to parts of our application. https://avohq.io/blog/cloudflare-turnstile-rails

🚀 Exploring Microservices in Ruby on Rails

I just shared an in-depth article about building a microservices architecture using Ruby on Rails! 🧩 ✅ What are microservices? ✅ Why choose them? ✅ A complete, step-by-step example (with code!) of creating user-service and post-service using Rails. [more inside]

Marksmith

Easily add Markdown support to your Rails applications with Marksmith. This isn’t a drop-in replacement to ActionText, but can be used with text or blob columns. Marksmith integrates easily with ActiveStorage for handling file uploads. In this episode, we’ll explore setting up Marksmith and some best practices. https://www.driftingruby.com/episodes/marksmith

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  26 May 2025

🚀 Level Up Your Ruby API Game! 🚀

I just wrote a new article on how to make API calls in Ruby, exploring everything from the simplest approach to pro-level solutions with HTTParty and Faraday. 🌟 💡 Whether you’re building a new project or improving an existing one, knowing the best ways to handle API requests can make a world of difference. [more inside]

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