In the background, @yukihiro_matz getting miked up for his keynote. In the foreground, an issue of mine that he and Claude literally fixed minutes prior.
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Sam Ruby
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Sam Ruby
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https://t.co/Vfbxo6yzUw Rails Specialist. Open Web Communities. he/him
Raleigh, NC Katılım Mart 2009
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Lobste.rs as a benchmark: initial progress report: intertwingly.net/blog/2026/07/1…
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> My goal with JRuby has always been to give Rubyists more tools and more opportunities. By combining JRuby with the power and ecosystem of the JVM, we’ve brought Ruby and Rails to places it never could have gone before.
Hold my beer. :-)
Charles Oliver Nutter@headius
JRuby returns to RubyConf for the 2026 Las Vegas edition! I will deliver a talk on Tuesday, run a Hack Space on Wednesday, and would love to hang out with you at JRubyKaraoke (Tuesday night) and the poolside JRuby Cabana (Thursday). Here's all the info: buff.ly/WV7FiqM
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Mastodon's streaming server exists because MRI can't hold ten thousand idle sockets. Rewrote it in a Ruby that compiles: 300 connections, 16MB vs Node's 202MB. It's the first rung of a bigger ladder — Mastodon on Spinel, as a supported configuration. intertwingly.net/blog/2026/07/0…
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Sam Ruby retweetledi
The co-author of the legendary AWDR book is coming to Deccan Queen 🚂
We’re excited to welcome Sam Ruby as a speaker at Deccan Queen this October in Pune.
See you in Pune this October.
#DeccanQueenOnRails #RubyOnRails
#Rails @samruby #Pune
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Sam Ruby retweetledi
@yukihiro_matz Not sure where the best place to discuss this would be, a Spinel issue feels inappropriate. Any feedback you can give on this direction would be appreciated: intertwingly.net/blog/2026/05/0…
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@bradgessler I'm not sure I understand. Endless methods parse virtually identically as endfull methods.
For the value of DSLs/macros (to both humans and LLMs) see rubys.github.io/roundhouse/bro… and click on article.rb in both Ruby and Spinel.
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@samruby Check out endless Ruby methods:
def self.table_name; "articles"; end
Becomes
def self.table_name = “articles”
Makes the “DSLs don’t matter as much” argument even more compelling, though I still think macros are useful for LLMs.
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Two perspectives on one decision: intertwingly.net/blog/2026/05/0… and intertwingly.net/blog/2026/05/0… ; background: intertwingly.net/blog/2026/05/0… and intertwingly.net/blog/2026/04/2…
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"Spinel plus Roundhouse points at a future where a Rails app can ship as a single native executable without leaving the language"
Matt Solt@mattsolt
The 29th edition of Ruby AI News is here! This edition features performance optimizations for agentic workloads, Matz’s new Ruby compiler, Rails’ progression to an AI-native framework, and much more 🔻
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Two make commands from a fresh git clone: a real Rails app transpiled to Spinel-subset Ruby, running on localhost:3000 with real-time Turbo broadcasts and SQLite persistence. Roundhouse iteration one is here.
intertwingly.net/blog/2026/04/2…
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Two Ruby compilers, started about the same time, by people unaware of each other's work. The interesting question isn't which is right — it's what changed.
intertwingly.net/blog/2026/04/2…
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