I miss app (.) net from like 2014-15. Good premises but like couldn't make it viable as a business I guess. Long before decentralized social networks lol
Took a few minutes, but after I setup my Android phone which got here today, I have a working android app build running on it as well. This truly starts to make RubyEverywhere.com possible on all platforms.
RubyEverywhere: Native apps from plain Ruby
Turn plain Rails, Hanami, or Sinatra apps into real native apps for desktop, iOS, and Android. One CLI, a single-file binary, no Electron, no rewrite.
rubyeverywhere.com
actually sad to read this all out. Ruby Central was foundational in my early career. I learned so much from conference videos and so forth early in. The relationships I built in the hallways of RailsConf and RubyConf stand through my career today. But Ruby Central is not the same as it once was.
André Arko@indirect.io · 6d agoI wrote an update on the dispute with Ruby Central over Bundler and RubyGems. I'm sad it's reached this point, especially since Ruby Central's conferences are a big part of what convinced me to join the Ruby community back in the day. andre.arko.net/2026/07/30/rub…
my trade in... is up for sale on the dealers website... for 5k more than I got lol. That took less than 12 hours lol
IT IS DONE. many hours outside of the dealer negotiating, 3 hours, 11 minutes to get the deal done at the dealer. Happy with the outcome. hooray!
Andrea Fomera@afomera.dev · last wk.Things not on my bingo card this week: buying a new car here i am though i guess. fucking car dealerships are still the worst
Things not on my bingo card this week: buying a new car here i am though i guess. fucking car dealerships are still the worst
It blows so hard that every time I do something and have big plans and they involve Rails, the hamburger helper guy keeps fucking it up. like censor your-fucking-self my guy and you'll stop wasting a whole fucking day on the backlash, and cause a lot less angst. send skeet.
In both the iOS and Android versions of the Ruby Everywhere Jump app, you can preview your native apps on device, but like what do you do when you have native screens? Error? Be stuck on a constant loading bar because it can't load your native screens from another app? How about a message instead?
When I was looking at picking up an Android phone, I realized Google Fi was giving like ~$450 off an ~$800 phone. Which ya know, yeah, $375 is about what I'm willing to pay for flirting with Android phones on the side lol
Just got the first built .ipa (iOS app) from RubyEverywhere and got it onto my real phone. I then scanned another RubyEverywhere app's preview QR code and could see that app running inside the Jump app. Holy shit. I think this is gonna work y'all.
I added a basic tui today for the RubyEverywhere.com CLI. Quick menu to jump to your app in an iOS simulator, Android emulator or a desktop app or even your browser. When you make a change that requires a relaunch of your app you can hit that platform's key and it'll rebuild, install and relaunch.
I've continued to be working hard on RubyEverywhere.com I have made great strides towards the Android, iOS and Desktop pieces and they're going strong. There's places you can hook native code and extensions and packages if you need them. #ruby #rails #native #hotwirenative #iOS #android
RubyEverywhere — Native apps from plain Ruby
Turn plain Rails, Hanami, or Sinatra apps into real native apps — desktop today, mobile next. One CLI, a single-file binary, no Electron, no rewrite.
rubyeverywhere.com
How serious am I about RubyEverywhere allowing apps to be well... everywhere? I ordered my first android phone since 2018 to use for building out that side of things.
just went from 0 free disk space.... to... 120gb free. How? I cleaned my cargo cache in like 20 different directories. Rust folks... is there a better way to manage that? That's wild
for the morning crew 👀 Here's a little insight into part of what i've been working on
Andrea Fomera@afomera.dev · 2w agoall of this you see can be used in your own apps for free. (biometrics, haptics, notifications, permissions, tab bars, and so much more!) I'll be talking about bit more about RubyEverywhere soon. For now here's me walking through the biometrics feature #rails #iOS cleanshot.com/share/zYbtBh8N
all of this you see can be used in your own apps for free. (biometrics, haptics, notifications, permissions, tab bars, and so much more!) I'll be talking about bit more about RubyEverywhere soon. For now here's me walking through the biometrics feature #rails #iOS cleanshot.com/share/zYbtBh8N
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bout to have to fork my like sixth library to make changes to support my ruby apps -> native apps project. everything is fine.
Chris Farley: Pulling Hair Out, I'm Fine
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Oh look ma, it's a native iOS app from my Ruby on Rails app with just a yaml file.
genuinely not excited for this three hour long dentist appointment this morning in a few. and then i’ll have to come back again next week :(
Tonight I finished app updating for the desktop app + publishing with release notes support. You define your own route/view on your rails app (esp if deployed), it communicates with our JS bridge to the native app shell and can trigger updates/install/etc as needed. Can auto-install too if wanted
Made a change in my compiled ruby app's CI pipeline that dropped the build from 7 minutes and 41 seconds to 3 minutes and 55 seconds, and the actual 'build' took only 2.5 minutes. not great still, but that's super nifty!
i’ve really tried to like codex but their CLI feels so backwards from Claude’s :(
It's just shy of midnight, Taco Bell is on the way and I've got my terminal open. Time to do some performance work on my compiled ruby apps project. Time to push the petal to the metal.
dog foodin, I went from no desktop app -> a desktop app with 1 command to install it 1 set of edits to a yaml file 1 command to auth to the Platform 1 command to build the app on the Platform pretty dang cool.
I've been working on a promise to any users of this new thing I'm working on. A foundational key promise is that the core will always be free. I believe at the foundations that building your apps for all platforms should remain free if you've got the gumption to do the setup work yourself.
I just had a 'hot damn' moment with this compiled Ruby app project. I watched the platform I built take a CLI's app submission -> build the app -> sign in -> ask Tim Apple if it can be notarized -> get it back and return the zip file of my app that I could give to my friends NEAT
created and git push'd a new heroku app for work like it was 2014.
lots of foundational work done tonight on my compiled ruby apps project. really cool shit, this is like the best of all the worlds I've been in lately and bringing it to everyone is going to be.... awesome. I have a zip file with the first compiled, signed and notarized .app file, and that's rad.