Shoryuken Has a New Maintainer, and v7.0.0 Is Almost There
After a decade under Pablo Cantero's stewardship, Shoryuken has a new maintainer - me. I'm…
Posted inPerformance Ruby Software
Ruby Floats: When 2.6x Faster Is Actually Slower (and Then Faster Again)
Update: This article originally concluded that Eisel-Lemire wasn't worth it for Ruby. I was wrong.…
Announcing YARD-Lint: Keep Your Ruby Documentation Solid
TL;DR: YARD-Lint catches documentation issues, just like RuboCop for code. Star it and use it…
When Your Hash Becomes a String: Hunting Ruby’s Million-to-One Memory Bug
Every developer who maintains Ruby gems knows that sinking feeling when a user reports an…
Announcing llm-docs-builder: An Open Source Tool for Making Documentation AI-Friendly
I am excited to announce the release of llm-docs-builder, a library that transforms Markdown documentation…
When Responsibility and Power Collide: Lessons from the RubyGems Crisis
The Ruby community experienced significant turbulence in September 2025 when Ruby Central forcibly took control…
Posted inasync Karafka Performance
WaterDrop Meets Ruby’s Async Ecosystem: Lightweight Concurrency Done Right
Ruby developers have faced an uncomfortable truth for years: when you need to talk to…
Posted inconference Rails Ruby
Past, Present, Future, and Brotherly Love: My Final RailsConf Journey
A few weeks have passed since RailsConf 2025, which was running from July 8th to…
Posted inpassivequeue Performance Rails
Announcing Passive Queue: The Rails Background Job System That Transcends Processing
0ms processing time. Infinite scalability. 100% success rate. Zero failures. ← Give it a star…
Posted inapache kafka Karafka rdkafka
The 60-Second Wait: How I Spent Months Solving the Ruby’s Most Annoying Gem Installation Problem
Notice: While native extensions for rdkafka have been extensively tested and are no longer experimental,…