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Javier Cervantes

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I'm an entrepreneur/software engineer working as a consultant to help builders and founders use the power of technology to grow their businesses. - jvrc.ca - graywolf.co - rubyforum.org

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Oh true! It's backwards, I misread your post. You’re right that prob automation of that is not a _real_ need. Nvm then! πŸ™Š

06.03.2026 23:55 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It might be useful for POSSE. Post in pagecord and syndicate everywhere else?

06.03.2026 23:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Monthly Update - February Wrap-Up & March Preview Hi everyone February was an exciting month for the Ruby Users Forum. We welcomed 87 new members, and 181 posts were created, keeping conversations active across categories. We also began shaping our ...

Checkout the Ruby Users Forum Monthly Update

Some highlights: 87 new members, enabled tags, gif support and lots of new interesting resources and discussions!

Follow the link for the full announcement: www.rubyforum.org/t/monthly-up...

05.03.2026 20:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Got it! Yeah I haven't seen any zines specifically for Ruby... looking forward to the ideas you have!

05.03.2026 19:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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wizard zines

Like these? wizardzines.com

05.03.2026 18:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Juntos project looks very promising

05.03.2026 17:10 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I’m preparing a guide to deploy a Ruby app. What format you prefer for this type of content?

a) only written steps
b) written steps with screenshots
c) video

03.03.2026 21:04 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
Four months of Ruby Central moving Ruby backward From the moment RubyGems was first created in 2004, Ruby Central provided governance without claiming ownership, to support the Ruby community. Providing governance meant creating processes to provide...

Great post by @indirect.io with some concrete recommendations until accountability arrives:

* Don’t sponsor, attend, or speak at RubyConf.
* Contribute to projects that aren’t controlled by Ruby Central.

Ruby Central has resolved nothing and can't be trusted.

andre.arko.net/2026/03/03/f...

03.03.2026 17:50 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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On one end, the Anthropic team is a massive user of AI to write code (80%+ of all code deployed is written by Claude Code). They ship amazingly fast.

On the other hand, seeing these beyond terrible reliability numbers suggests there might be a downside to all this speed:

02.03.2026 13:42 πŸ‘ 184 πŸ” 26 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 12

100%

27.02.2026 17:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

True, in that case I fully agree with your approach of using them with caution.

25.02.2026 18:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Or don’t use it?

25.02.2026 13:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Love this! If your a Ruby user or want to learn more about it, join us in: www.rubyforum.org

25.02.2026 13:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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gem.coop update #5: namespaces beta Today, the gem.coop team is very excited to announce we have reached public beta. If you want to get started right away, sign up now to start publishing your gems. Have you ever come up with a really ...

I'm excited to be on beta.gem.coop/@kaspth

We've got namespaced gems you can use today!

Read more here: gem.coop/updates/5/

24.02.2026 21:16 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

Makes sense. I hope you run into scaling problems soon! :)

24.02.2026 18:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Hosting, but seems like you did a great job optimizing with Hetzner + Hatchbox. Also would've thought that the email service and image storage would be pricier.

24.02.2026 17:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Exactly! How?

24.02.2026 17:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

i think the rise of llm coding is societal punishment for the crime of making our web development frameworks so complicated and awful

24.02.2026 16:25 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

A very interesting breakdown of costs of @pagecord.com, I would've expected it to be higher!

24.02.2026 16:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Just Say No We must resist the everything machine.

AI seems useful, doesn't it? Surely using it just once won't hurt?

It makes us feel good, powerful, and correct. But at what cost?

justsayno.ai

23.02.2026 20:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Screenshot of discourse discovery feed showing Ruby forums

Screenshot of discourse discovery feed showing Ruby forums

Ruby Users Forum is now featured in discover.discourse.com?q=ruby

\o/

20.02.2026 21:14 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ”₯

17.02.2026 14:45 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Quick PSA:
If you're an event organizer who wants the Ruby Passport at your event, get in touch with me at least one month in advance.
These things take a while to get made and shipped your way.

✌️

15.02.2026 23:23 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Annie Kiley
How To Finish What You Start: Lessons From Actually Shipping a Big Refactor

Brooke Kuhlmann
Terminus: A Hanami + htmx web application for e-ink devices

Christine Seeman
Optimize Your Mindset (Without Overclocking)

David Paluy
LLM Telemetry as a First-Class Rails Concern

Ifat Ribon
Yes, &…: Ruby’s Secret Talent for Improvisation

JoΓ«l Quenneville
State is the First Decision You Never Made

John Athayde
Learning from Permaculture: Sustainable Software Development

Kevin Murphy
InstiLLMent of Successful Practices in an Agentic World

Rachael Wright-Munn
Your First Open-Source Contribution

Thomas Cannon
5 ways to invest in yourself for the long haul

Annie Kiley How To Finish What You Start: Lessons From Actually Shipping a Big Refactor Brooke Kuhlmann Terminus: A Hanami + htmx web application for e-ink devices Christine Seeman Optimize Your Mindset (Without Overclocking) David Paluy LLM Telemetry as a First-Class Rails Concern Ifat Ribon Yes, &…: Ruby’s Secret Talent for Improvisation JoΓ«l Quenneville State is the First Decision You Never Made John Athayde Learning from Permaculture: Sustainable Software Development Kevin Murphy InstiLLMent of Successful Practices in an Agentic World Rachael Wright-Munn Your First Open-Source Contribution Thomas Cannon 5 ways to invest in yourself for the long haul

This mid-February morning, you can almost tell that spring is coming. 🌱 Today we're pleased to announce 10 wonderful Rubyists who will be bringing their stories, insights, and wisdom to the Blue Ridge stage April 30 & May 1. Hope to see you there! blueridgeruby.com

16.02.2026 14:44 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 3
rv 0.5: CLI tools + Windows

rv has a big release, with windows support and gem CLI tools! the fastest way to generate a rails app is now `brew install rv; rvx rails new`. check it out: https://spinel.coop/blog/rv-0.5-cli-tools-windows/

12.02.2026 19:55 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It's not retro themed, but I've enjoying listening to the Dead Code podcast by @jardo.dev

12.02.2026 16:33 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The two best feelings in the world are:

1. Helping another person
2. Learning something new

Interesting how both big tech with β€œAI” and β€œconservatives” do not want you to do either.

10.02.2026 02:50 πŸ‘ 45 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

"Stop generating, start understanding, and remember what we enjoyed about doing this in the first place."

Also, perhaps we don't always need more of everything.

09.02.2026 15:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Topics tagged getting-started Topics tagged getting-started

Quick update about rubynewbie.org

The project is getting merged with the Ruby Users Forum. Content has been moved to:

www.rubyforum.org/tag/getting-...
www.rubyforum.org/t/getting-st...

Looking forward to collaborating with the community to keep improving these resources together.

09.02.2026 14:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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All the Little Things Theory tells us to build applications out of small, interchangeable objects but reality often supplies the exact opposite. Many apps contain huge classes of long methods and hair-raising conditionals;...

All the videos, articles and books of @sandimetz.bsky.social I would recommend, timeless classics for sure!

They are generally about OOD but naming is an important part and it’s covered in detail, for example:

www.rubyevents.org/talks/all-th...

sandimetz.com/99bottles

07.02.2026 00:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0