It's here! The paper version of Eloquent Ruby, 2nd edition is available on Amazon! Finally! www.amazon.com/Eloquent-Rub... Remember, you are looking for the *2nd edition*, the one with the orchestra conductor on the cover.

SimpleCov 1.0.0.rc1 is out and I’d love your help testing it on your Ruby projects ahead of the final v1.0.0 release: gem install simplecov --pre If you hit a bug or rough edge, please open an issue: github.com/simplecov-ru...

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Code coverage for Ruby with a powerful configuration library and automatic merging of coverage across test suites - Issues · simplecov-ruby/simplecov

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Can you drop a link to this survey in your Discord/Slack? railsdeveloper.com/survey/

2026 Ruby on Rails Community Survey

The 2026 Ruby on Rails Community Survey is now open. Add your voice to the community data. Brought to you by Planet Argon.

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If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

the former maintainers of Bundler and RubyGems have a proposal: we want to move Ruby forward andre.arko.net/2025/10/26/w...

“The cat is such a perfect symbol of beauty and superiority that it seems scarcely possible for any true aesthete and civilised cynic to do other than worship it.” - H.P. Lovecraft

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

Neutral Switzerland 🔥 I love this so much…

Small Ruby trick: Set up a `~/.default-gems` file in your home directory. These gems will be automatically installed when you install Ruby. Works out of the box with ASDF and Mise! #ruby

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

My friend Ryan Davis, Minitest author and Ruby extraordinaire, is looking for new employment. He has: 25 years Ruby exp; ~100 gems w/ ~2 billion downloads. Loves: languages / runtimes, profiling & optimization, debugging, testing, OSS, etc. Hit him up, he's great! zenspider.com/ryan/Resume.html

Just found out a good friend and mentor, Noah Gibbs, has passed away. Rest in peace friend, the Ruby community is poorer in your absence.