Marco Roth

@marcoroth.dev

Full-Stack Web Developer • OSS Contributor • Electronic Music Addict • Ruby/Rails, JavaScript/Stimulus, Crystal • Hotwire Contributors Team • StimulusReflex Core. Website: marcoroth.dev Building: rubyevents.org | rubyconferences.org | gem.sh | hotwire.io

I just released Insta, a new snapshot testing library for Ruby, live at RubyConf in Las Vegas! Extracted from Herb's test suite and inspired by @mitsuhiko.at's fantastic insta library for Rust. `gem "insta"`

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I just released Insta, a new snapshot testing library for Ruby, live at RubyConf in Las Vegas! Extracted from Herb's test suite and inspired by @mitsuhiko.at's fantastic insta library for Rust. `gem "insta"`

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I don't mind reading code written by agents, but I hate reading their PR descriptions. If I can't make myself read a PR description from Claude, I won't expect others to. Now when delivering PRs, I may not have written the code by hand, but I'll certainly write the description.

We love ruby events and we want to support their growth. These guides are a fantastic resource for new organizers and those looking for new ideas. Thank you to all the organizers who contributed, and @hansschnedlitz.com for putting these guides together. Welcome to the team, Hans!

Hans Schnedlitz@hansschnedlitz.com · 4w ago

RubyEvents Guides is now live. Over the last few months, I talked to Rubyists who want to help the community keep going. Some want to restart a local meetup. Some are organizing their first small conference. Some already run events and want to make the next one better.

RubyEvents Guides is now live. Over the last few months, I talked to Rubyists who want to help the community keep going. Some want to restart a local meetup. Some are organizing their first small conference. Some already run events and want to make the next one better.

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The RubyEvents.org June 2026 Newsletter is fresh off the presses! This month's headliner is the new homepage and videos page. There's new ways to find videos that interest you and at the bottom you'll find new guides to getting involved with the community! www.rubyevents.org/announcement...

RubyEvents.org June 2026 Newsletter

3 events in June - Matsue RubyKaigi 12, Blastoff Rails, and Brighton Ruby - and 3 events in July - Ruby Retreat 2026, RubyConf 2026, and Kansai RubyKaigi 09. The Fall CFP season is coming to a close w...

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The Ruby Developer Experience team at Shopify has just launched Rubydex, a building block for indexing and (semantically) querying your Ruby codebases. @vinistock.bsky.social has a write up explaining what it is and how it works here: railsatscale.com/2026-05-12-o...

One engine, many tools — Introducing Rubydex

Introducing Rubydex — a portable static analysis engine powering Ruby LSP, Tapioca, Packwerk, and more. One foundation, compounding benefits for the whole ecosystem.

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Really exciting to see Herb being adopted at GitHub! 🌿 Over the past months, the GitHub team has been running Herb across one of the largest Rails codebases out there where Herb helped uncover real issues missed by existing tooling while also providing invaluable feedback. 🙌

Joel's blogpost titled "Adopting Herb at GitHub"

https://hawksley.org/2026/05/06/adopting-herb-at-github.html

So, Chrome's "web standard" Prompt API: Mozilla: Opposed WebKit: Opposed Microsoft: Several concerns W3C TAG: Several concerns Developers: Mostly negative Chrome: Ships anyway. A sad time for web standards. But, I guess someone at Google will get promoted, so 'every cloud…'

April has been the busiest month for the the Ruby community so far with 6 events! This month, we welcomed 9 new contributors and merged 40 PRs from 22 total contributors. ❤️ We have several new CFPs, including the RailsWorld CFP! Get the full scoop: www.rubyevents.org/announcement...

RubyEvents.org April 2026 Newsletter

April was a busy month month for the Ruby community with 5 conferences - Tropical on Rails, wroclove.rb, RubyKaigi, Haggis Ruby, and Blue Ridge Ruby! May will be another busy month with Rubycon, Balka...

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