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Hey everyone! Quick question for the Ruby folks here — what’s your IDE or editor of choice for day-to-day Ruby/Rails work? Do you swear by RubyMine? Live inside VS Code with a handful of extensions? Or are you one of the brave souls still hacking a...

I’ve been through a long parade of editors and IDEs over the years, and each phase almost feels like a snapshot of where I was as a developer at the time. Back at university the big names were NetBeans and Eclipse—heavy, clunky, but they got the job ...

If you’ve been around Rails long enough, you’ve probably battled your fair share of SSL demons. But this one? This one had personality. It was a Seahorse::Client::NetworkingError that failed only on macOS — yet worked perfectly inside Docker. The ki...

Hey everyone! Thought we’d kick things off with some introductions. What’s your experience been like working with Ruby or Rails so far? Are you deep in a legacy app, or running shiny Rails 8 with all the trimmings? I’ll start: I’ve been working wi...

In the last articlehttps://kitfucoda.medium.com/beyond-rbenv-and-pyenv-achieving-reproducible-dev-setups-with-nix-04b610175a59, we discussed the evolution of my development setup, focusing on how it became reproducible over time. It was originally wr...

Hey everyone. Welcome to our brand-new Ruby & Rails group! This is a space for anyone working with Ruby — whether you’re wrangling ActiveRecord callbacks, crafting APIs, or pushing the edges of what Rails can do in 2025. The goal here is simple: sh...

Feature flags are a way of life when developing software. They let you deploy code to production without immediately exposing it to users — like flipping a switch without blowing the fuse. In practice, they're used to: Ship features incrementally ...

Sidekiqhttps://github.com/sidekiq/sidekiq is pretty much the go-to solution for enqueuing jobs for background processing when working on a Ruby-based project. It's simple to implement, has a clear DSL, and is well-supported by common testing framewor...

Imagine that your Rails application is running smoothly. Users are satisfied, payments are processed, emails are sent out, and reports are produced. Sidekiq feels like magic. Then one Friday evening because production issues always happen on Fridays...

Now that we had a deployable app, I set up a staging server using my new favourite provider, Hetznerhttps://www.hetzner.com/ not a sponsor, lol, spun it up, and witnessed a “fully functional” skeleton of JuggleBee. Stage 1 of the migration plan was c...

JuggleBeehttp://www.jugglebee.com was born in 2015. It was Namibia's first online auction platform and is still one of the biggest today. I built it with Ruby on Rails 4.2 on Ruby 2.2. It sat there, rock-solid and stubbornly stable, only needing the ...

If you're on Windows, you can still develop with Ruby and Rails . Let's walk through your options and the steps involved. There are two main options: ️ Option A: Use WSL Recommended WSL stands for Windows Subsystem for Linux — it lets you run a ...

Setting up a development environment is a painful process, as I discussed previouslyhttps://kitfucoda.medium.com/from-dotfile-hacks-to-open-source-my-development-environment-evolution-a771ea7bf8a8 when detailing how mine evolved to the combination of...

Critical Rails Security Updates: Patch Your Apps Now! Attention all Ruby on Rails developers! The Rails team has released Rails versions 6.1.7.9, 7.0.8.5, 7.1.4.1, and 7.2.1.1, which address several critical security vulnerabilities, most notably Re...