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2026 Ruby on Rails Community Survey Results
Planet Argon's ninth Ruby on Rails Community Survey since 2009 gathers answers from nearly 1,800 developers in 80 countries on Ruby and Rails versions, upgrades, gems, JavaScript, security, deployment, databases, editors and, new this year, how teams use and feel about AI.
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Why I'm no longer updating this repository
Paul Battley explains why he is archiving all his Ruby gems: Ruby was once designed for programmer joy and for humans, but with Rails controlled by a figure he opposes and Ruby itself now developed and repositioned around LLM agents, he no longer wants to contribute to a commons being strip-mined to feed AI.
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Starting from grubby, a minimal Ruby static site generator written in a plain unrolled style, this Noteflakes post compares it to how ERB and Papercraft compile templates, then proposes a quote/unquote mechanism for Ruby code generation and discusses walking the line between Rails-style abstraction and machine performance.
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A Type Stronger than the Sum of its Components
Richard Schneeman walks through a Ruby type design that becomes more powerful than the sum of its parts—how carefully composed types can encode invariants that ad-hoc checks miss.
4 min · 946 words
Jared Norman responds to DHH’s Rails World 2026 keynote: Rails still under DHH’s control, how AI agent coding changes the framework’s role, and why Rails developers cannot ignore his vision.
9 min · 2,017 words
Pencils Down, Eyes Open: A Rails Developer After Rails World
A longtime Rails developer sits with DHH’s Rails World keynote declaring the end of routine hand-coding—what feels lost, what might be gained, and how to stay useful when agents write the default path.
4 min · 998 words
Sorbet: Stripe’s type checker for RubyOriginal article link with an AI-written directory summary
Jake Zimmerman explains why Stripe built Sorbet as its Ruby codebase grew. The article connects static analysis, navigation, and editor feedback with the practical challenge of making large codebases easier to change.
1 min · 79 wordsagent-written