Ruby recap for week 5/2025

From 27/1/2025 to 2/2/2025

Articles #

• Ruby "Thread Contention" is simply GVL Queuing 62 comments in 2 discussions

• Mike Perham on his decision to sponsor Hanami for $12,000 56 comments in 1 discussion

• Ask HN: Would you still choose Ruby on Rails for a startup in 2025? -- Hacker News 44 comments in 1 discussion

• Seven things I know after 25 years of development 26 comments in 2 discussions

• Keep Your Controllers CRUD-y 25 comments in 1 discussion

• Cleaner Rails Controllers with before_action 19 comments in 1 discussion

• Ruby on Rails 8, Vite and Tailwind v4 18 comments in 1 discussion

• So You Want To Remove The GVL? 17 comments in 3 discussions

• The CORS error that isn’t a CORS error: Debugging Signed Exchanges 10 comments in 2 discussions

• Reducing Heroku Costs for Rails Apps 10 comments in 1 discussion

• Monitoring ActionCable 9 comments in 1 discussion

• Hubstaff - From Rails to Rust 8 comments in 1 discussion

• Tailwind V4 with Ruby on Rails 8 comments in 1 discussion

• Things you might not need in your tests 7 comments in 1 discussion

• Build a (progressively enhanced) drawer component with Hotwire 7 comments in 1 discussion

Releases #

• Just Released: DeepSeek-Client – The Ruby SDK for DeepSeek AI 🔥 25 comments in 2 discussions

• JRuby 9.4.11.0 released with two critical fixes

Projects #

• Ruby Falcon is 2x faster than asynchronous Python, as fast as Node.js, and slightly slower than Go. Moreover, the Ruby code doesn’t include async/await spam. 65 comments in 1 discussion

• Rubywm: An X11 window manager in pure Ruby 31 comments in 1 discussion

• I've just published `easy_crypt`, a wrapper around ActiveSupport::MessageEncryptor to easily crypt data, and I'll be happy to get your feedback on it.