Ruby Runway Spotlight: Joe Masilotti's Ruby Native ships real native iOS and Android apps from your existing Rails HTML and ERB. No Swift, no Kotlin. Here's his story, and his advice on charging early to test an idea fast. Read here👉️ buff.ly/z2dXxeY

Show us your people: Ruby friends from the start, the ones you finally fist-bumped after years of calls and pull request comments, & the new faces becoming your people. Drop RubyConf'26 photos below. Old friends, new friends, all of it! Creating a public photo album together~

The July README is out! RubyConf 2026 retrospective, community spotlights, and a new way to support RubyGems.org. Read it here → buff.ly/PyLKPGu

Ruby Runway Spotlight: Michael Carroll of Coolhand Labs built an AI observability tool that cuts agent costs over 50%, and still maintains a Ruby gem when most AI dev tools have moved on. Here's his story. buff.ly/JtmBLCK

PSA: Critical Rails security release - a bug in Active Storage variant processing can allow unauthenticated users to read arbitrary files, including app secrets. Upgrade now. github.com/rails/rails/...

Possible arbitrary file read and remote code execution in Active Storage variant processing

### Impact In its default configuration, a Rails application that displays image variants may allow an unauthenticated attacker to read arbitrary files from the server, including the process envi...

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What's the moment from RubyConf 2026 you're never going to forget? The talk that wrecked you. The lunch conversation that somehow lasted four hours. Meeting a GitHub username in person for the first time. No moment is too small. Tell us.

Turns out RubyConf wasn't just full of coding magic. 🎩✨ Huge thanks to Flagrant for bringing an amazing magician to the conference! The tricks, laughs, and "wait...WHAT?!" moments made for a memorable experience between sessions.

Scholars & Guides spotlight: Madeline Caples wrote a great mini-project on building a workflow for learning to code with AI as a study partner, not a shortcut. Developed while building a Rails Notes app at RubyConf 2026. Go give them a read and a follow. Madeline's blog👉️

Learning at Ruby Conf: A Workflow For AI Assisted Study

This week I have had the delightful pleasure of attending my first Ruby Conf in Las Vegas, Nevada. At the conference there was much discussion, amongst speakers and attendees alike, on the future of R

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Cheering solo founders and two-person teams shipping Ruby apps that solve real problems for people. No Series A or microservices blog posts, just a domain and an idea that works. Building in that space? Tell me the problem you're solving and who it's for.

RubyConf 2026 is a wrap. We laughed, learned, and stayed up late doing karaoke...Turned debates into conversations about why we do this. This community keeps the energy and friendships alive after the conference. What's one thing you're taking home?

Security Advisory: Possible exposure of legacy RubyGems.org API keys. If you use RubyGems client < v3.2.0 or a legacy API key, review your account. No evidence of malicious use. Scoped API keys are not affected. buff.ly/u0xAec3

Security advisory: Possible leak of legacy API keys via improper cache configuration

A CDN caching bug on RubyGems.org could hand one account’s API key to another person for up to an hour. If you signed in to RubyGems.org with a gem client older than v3.2.0, your key could have bee...

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Ruby Runway Spotlight: Paresh Sharma built Viveture (a pet sitter marketplace that takes zero cut from bookings) solo, on Rails, in under a year. Here's his story and his advice for devs sitting on a startup idea. Read more👉️ buff.ly/YPuOkgJ

RubyConf may be over, but conferences keep coming. How do you reset after a few days of nonstop talking, learning, and socializing? Ours: sleep. A lot of it. What's your recovery ritual?

RubyConf 2026: a wrap. Keynotes from Obie Fernandez and Dave Thomas, a Matz Q&A with tenderlove (ask about the AI-scented candle intern interview), and an ice cream social to close it out. Gonna now take a nap. Safe travels home, everyone.

Day 2 of RubyConf 2026: the "Once a Maintainer" panel with Allison Pike, Jeremy Evans, Colby Swandale & Richard Schneeman, workshops, Hack Spaces, Birds of a Feather, the Future of Ruby panel, Ruby Runway startup pitches, Lightning Talks, and Game Night. Final day is here.

🎊 Big news🎊 from our partners at the Ruby Association: starting this October, Japanese companies can support RubyGems.org in Yen through a local liaison, removing a real barrier to backing the infrastructure their teams use every day. Full announcement: buff.ly/edKJ5JG

Day 1 of RubyConf 2026: Matz's opening keynote, an incredible lineup of session speakers, celebrating our 7 Ruby Luminary Awardees, and closing out with Jessica Kerr asking "Who We Are Now?" in an age of AI-assisted coding. Onward to Day 2.

Travel day🚗✈️ Safe flights, smooth drives, no delays. When you land, you're 20 minutes from one of the best resort backdrops we've ever had for this conference. Get settled, find your people tonight, and come ready tomorrow. We'll see you at RubyConf.

2 days out. The hallway track at RubyConf is half the conference. The conversations that happen between sessions, over lunch, waiting for the elevator... some of the best ones you'll have all year. 👉️ rubyconf.org

3 days out. If you haven't been to Red Rock Canyon: 15 minutes from the Strip, stunning, and a nature break that eases conference-snack guilt. Good for a morning or evening. 📍 Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area

4 days out. Packing checklist, RubyConf edition: Laptop + chargers ✅ Layers (Vegas AC is brutal) ✅ Sunscreen (for brave adventurers) ✅ Your fave board game for Game Night ✅ Your best celeb impersonations ✅ Game Night on Day 2 is legendary. Bring something worth playing.

5 days until RubyConf Las Vegas🤩 If you're flying July 13th, you're in good company. What excites you most: a talk, reuniting with yearly friends, the hallway track, or Hack Spaces? We're one week out and the anticipation is real.

Heading to #RubyConf this July? Stop by and meet @sf_insurance — they've been building on Rails for years and are actively hiring Ruby engineers. 🤝 July 14–16 | Red Rock Casino Resort, Las Vegas buff.ly/84d1KSI

One week out. If you haven't mapped out your days yet, the Eventify app is the easiest way to do it. Download it now, search RubyConf 2026, and build your personal schedule before you're standing in the lobby trying to remember which room to go to.

Your brain after 6 sessions and 14 hallway conversations: 🫠 Good news! Thanks to @Fullscript, the RubyConf Relax Lounge is here to save the day. 💺 Massage chairs 🥨 Snacks 💊 Supplements 🚫 Zero sales pitch Come recharge before your next "quick chat" turns into 45 minutes.😄

The Ruby community values readable, intentional, human software. This year's Beautiful Ruby track returns to those foundations—abstraction, modularity, TDD—what makes code worth working in. We're curious: which principle or practice do you keep returning to?

One more Day 1 addition at RubyConf 🎉 "Yes, &...: Ruby's Secret Talent for Improvisation" — Ifat Ribon | 12:00 PM 8 days. Get your ticket now. buff.ly/DKVHooQ

Hack Spaces is back. If you've never experienced it: it's one of the most genuinely collaborative parts of RubyConf. Open source projects, featured tables, people actually working together in the same room. More info at rubyconf.org/community_day/

It's July 4th, which means somewhere right now a developer is writing a fireworks simulator in Ruby when they could just go outside. What's the most over-engineered thing you've ever built just because you could? Drop it below.👇️

This week, Kinsey Durham Grace: "It feels like home and like family." The MINISWAN spirit is real. Ruby conferences hit different, and Kinsey's story is exactly why. Share your Ruby story: buff.ly/QhriRDV