A developer's week-long comparison found OpenAI's Codex produced simpler Ruby/Rails code with fewer comments than Anthropic's Claude, but required more explicit instructions and caused a rebase mishap…
GitLab is hiring a Backend Engineer for its AI Engineering team, focusing on GitLab Duo Chat, with a salary range of $115,000–$194,000 per year, remote in Canada or the United States. The role involve…
Joanna Wang, senior software engineer at Sixfold, said on the On Rails podcast that while AI makes code cheap, developers remain valuable because they understand context and make judgment calls. She d…
Cue, a todo app built by an individual developer over several years, exemplifies how building a simple product can practice complex skills in product management, design, and engineering. The developer…
Ruby on Rails published the first public, same-harness benchmark of frontier models performing real Rails tasks, testing 8 models across 21 atomic tasks with 504 runs at a total cost of $491. Claude O…
The Rails Foundation commissioned Evil Martians to benchmark eight frontier and open-weight AI coding agents on Ruby on Rails tasks, releasing the first results today in a new initiative called Agents…
David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Ruby on Rails and co-owner and CTO of 37signals, said in an August 11th post on X that working with AI has restored a creative urgency he had not felt since his ea…
Ruby on Rails is a strong fit for AI agents because of its token efficiency, predictability, and ecosystem ergonomics, according to an analysis by Martin Alderson, co-founder of CatchMetrics. Alderson…
A developer known as tosane932 published a self-structured 86-hour web engineering roadmap that covers Python automation, Ruby on Rails, and a real-world logistics project for the Hiroshima region. Th…
A staff engineer describes using large language models (LLMs) for writing production code, throwaway code, learning new domains, and last-resort bug fixes, finding them most valuable for non-productio…
PHP 8.x with JIT compilation delivers competitive performance against Node.js in web workloads, while frameworks like Laravel and Symfony reduce development time by providing production-tested solutio…
MailKite offers a serverless alternative to Postal for AI agent email inboxes, eliminating the operational burden of self-hosting a mail server. While Postal requires managing MariaDB, Caddy, DNS, TLS…
Developers can safely and efficiently transform payloads in Ruby and Ruby on Rails workflows by isolating transformation logic behind dedicated transformers, using the strategy pattern for multiple in…
Aaron Sumner launched a new book, Testing Rails from Scratch, on Leanpub. The book provides a practical guide to test-driven development in Ruby on Rails using mostly built-in tools, covering Rails 8.…
David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Ruby on Rails and co-owner of 37signals, discussed the release of Basecamp 5, his evolving stance on AI-assisted development, and the future of Rails in a podcast …
Software developer and writer Sharon Rosner reflects on the joy of coding as a craft, arguing that the process of building software is more fulfilling than the end result. He critiques the AI revoluti…
A developer explores the Ruby on Rails request–response cycle through the metaphor of a shared echo, tracing how a browser's HTTP request travels through Puma, Rack, middleware, the router, and the co…
A surge in AI-generated pull requests is flooding open-source projects as job seekers attempt to boost their GitHub contribution metrics to stand out to employers. The trend, driven by a tight job mar…
AI is causing a deskilling of programming that mirrors the transformation frontend developers experienced over the past decade, according to a May 23, 2026 analysis by Mauro Bieg. The piece argues tha…
EZLogs launched a plain-English activity logging tool for Rails and Next.js applications that records every request, background job, and database change, then translates each chain of events into read…