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wreq-ruby: First production-ready Ruby HTTP client with TLS/HTTP2 browser fingerprint
We just open-sourced wreq-ruby, the first production-ready Ruby HTTP client with real browser TLS/HTTP2 fingerprinting. It emulates the exact signatures of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge, Opera, and OkHttp, so your requests pass as real browser traffic. Built in collaboration with the original wreq maintainer, powered by Rust with BoringSSL. Until now, Ruby had no production-ready solution for this. Pre-compiled native gems available for Linux and macOS.
Stop Using Net::HTTP: A Guide to Modern Ruby Requests
Ruby has a standard library for making web requests called Net::HTTP. It is famously terrible. The… [more inside]
Dear Future Me: How to Write Code You Won't Hate in 6 Months
The “I’ll Remember This” Lie We tell ourselves the same lie every day. “I don’t need to… [more inside]
Enclave: An MRuby sandbox for running arbitrary Ruby code from LLMs
https://beautifulruby.com/code/enclave is an mruby sandbox that runs inside Ruby. Why? Because maybe you want to expose tools inside the sandbox, like access to user data, but contain it so your agent can’t go crazy and do whatever it wants.
Seamless Postgres Indexing in Rails: The Case for Delayed Migrations
I published an article on how to properly add indexes with Rails, handling the creation of Postgres indices concurrently in delayed database migrations (after deployment).
Stop Building Settings Pages: A Guide to Ruthless MVP Scoping
The Graveyard of Perfect Apps We all have a ~/projects folder filled with half-finished… [more inside]
AI Assistance vs. Vibe Coding: The Two Modes of Modern Development
It is wild how fast things change. Just a few years ago, we were amazed that GitHub Copilot could… [more inside]
Making Encrypted Records Searchable
Rails’ encrypts directive is great until you need full-text search across those columns. You can’t query what the database can’t see — that’s the whole point. [more inside]
Where Does gem install Actually Go? Exploring the Ruby Filesystem
We type gem install rails or bundle install every day. Text scrolls down the screen, and suddenly we… [more inside]
Rkwalify Gem 1.4.0 released
Rkwalify gem (previously released as kwality) 1.4.0 released [more inside]
yet another decorator gem
Hey! I’ve created yet another decorator gem - https://github.com/alec-c4/auto_decorator It is lightweight, fast and not over-engineered :)
Ruby 3.4 introduces an experimental but potentially game-changing capability
Ruby 3.4 introduces an experimental but potentially game-changing capability: Modular Garbage Collectors. [more inside]
The Holy Trinity: Ruby, Bundler, and Gemfiles Explained
If you are coming from JavaScript (npm/yarn) or Python (pip/virtualenv), the Ruby way of doing things… [more inside]
Ruby proxy for SQLMap and Websockets
I wrote a little post about how a small Ruby app can help to proxy SQLMap(or any other fuzzer) requests to websocket endpoints. https://greg.molnar.io/blog/ruby-proxy-for-sqlmap-and-websockets
The Solo Frontend Team: Building a UI System in Pure Ruby
The “Partial” Problem We love Rails. We love ERB. But let’s be honest: app/views is… [more inside]