Bridgetown's deployment story for apps with both static content and Roda routes hasn't been great, until now! Deploy your static sites and routes side-by-side on the same server using Mimas and its official Bridgetown plugin!

Ayush@ayushn21.bsky.social · 2w ago

Mimas is the result of all the research covered in the below blog series. It's a CLI tool that automates Ruby deployment end-to-end, from securing the server, to installing required software, to log rotation, and everything in between.

Bridgetown 2.2 "Verdant River City" is out! It's a springtime bloom of new features: - Wikilinks in Markdown - Support for Falcon, the highly concurrent Ruby web application server - New sponsorship opportunities - Sneak peak at the Bridgetown Center program 👀

Everyone Deserves a Wiki: Bridgetown 2.2 is Here

Wikilinks in Markdown, support for Falcon the highly concurrent Ruby web application server, performance enhancements, bugfixes, and more!

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Hot on the heels of the RubyKaigi talk by Samuel Williams, Josh Teeter, and Marc-Andre Cournoyer about how Falcon handled Shopify's Black Friday traffic last year, Falcon will be the default in the next @bridgetownrb.com release! github.com/bridgetownrb...

Swap Puma out in favour of Falcon by ayushn21 · Pull Request #1083 · bridgetownrb/bridgetown

An initial stab at swapping Puma out for Falcon. At first look, everything seems to be working. We removed all hard dependencies on Puma last year so we might be mostly good to go here. @jaredcwhit...

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Happy to share that Ruby Users Forum will offer a place for Bridgetown discussions: www.rubyforum.org/t/bring-your...

Bring your Bridgetown discussions to the Ruby Users Forum

Today we’re happy to share that Ruby Users Forum will offer a place for Bridgetown discussions. Bridgetown is a “vanilla-first” progressive site generator & fullstack framework. Check out their docum...

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I spent the last few days migrating Sidekiq’s wiki content to a new @bridgetownrb.com app. I loved reading the docs and learning a totally new to me Ruby tool. That knowledge is literally the value I provide as a senior engineer. Why outsource that to AI?

New release codenamed "Festive River City 🥳" External content sources for file-based digital gardens, wikis, and more are among the latest under-the-hood refactoring & infrastructure work and feature additions! #Ruby #WebDev www.bridgetownrb.com/release/brid...

Let’s Get Festive! ’Tis the Season to Be Jolly with Bridgetown 2.1 Beta 1

Several exciting new features and yet more under-the-hood refactoring & infrastructure work sets us up well for future feature development in 2026.

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Kudos to the Bridgetown team on the 2.0 release. I was able to upgrade from v1.3 and re-deploy maintainable.fm in under 15 minutes. (without the use of AI) github.com/bridgetownrb...

(Re)Introducing the only #Ruby #WebDev framework which bridges the gap between static Markdown sites and fullstack database-driven application deployments.
Bridgetown 2.0 “River City” has been released! 🎉

Does anyone have their portfolio built with @bridgetownrb.com

Bridgetown is racing to the 2.0 finish line! We consider this Beta 4 release to be essentially an RC. Feature development is now frozen, and the only additional updates we anticipate will be major bug fixes only. Read the post for all the latest goodies in v2.0 Beta 4! #Ruby #WebDev

Countdown to Production! Bridgetown 2.0 Beta 4 is Here

Feature development is now frozen, and the only additional updates we anticipate will be major bug fixes only.

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Happy #Ruby #WebDev Monday! 🎉 Beta 3 of the Bridgetown 2.0 web framework has now been released, featuring a major performance boost for full builds, ESM support for all local configuration files of the frontend pipeline (no more CommonJS!), i18n support for fast refresh, and more.

Performance Boost with Bridgetown 2.0 Beta 3

Long build times reduced, fast refresh now supporting i18n, ESM all the way, and more.

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Is this thing on?