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We're back for another North West Ruby User Group in Manchester tonight! Rob Whittaker from thoughtbot will take us through one of his hot-takes: VCR does more damage than good, and there are imperfectly better ways to stub your external requests in your test suite. nwrug.org/events/its-t...

Tomorrow would have been my @1password.bsky.social renewal date but I won’t be renewing. Love the product, hate the financial support of a racist extremist‘s pet Linux distribution. 👋🏽

besides being full of holes, DHH's latest keynote also had near nothing to say to Rails users. cool cool cool. https://jardo.dev/what-about-rails

This is why I think it's so important to push back against the personification of LLMs. If a person shoots someone while wearing a hand puppet, they can't claim the hand puppet did the murder.

What if we didn’t leave LLMs in a loop with the ability to run random shell commands. Would that save humanity?

It’s NWRUG week! Come hang out in Manchester this Thursday with fellow Rubyists for our RubyConf watch along. Details and registration here: www.fatsoma.com/e/dkujjula/r...

This month at NWRUG we're doing a RubyConf 2026 watch along. We'll be watching @marcoroth.dev's talk The Anatomy of an ERB Rendering Engine. Register to attend! nwrug.org/events/septe...

Ruby event incoming! Join us tomorrow evening in Manchester to hear @jadedickinson.bsky.social tell us all about strategies for working with multi-database connections in Rails. nwrug.org/events/augus...

NWRUG has new branding! What do you think? Also one week today is our next meetup, signup now! nwrug.org/events/augus...

This month's NWRUG is now open for registration! Thursday 20th we'll have @jadedickinson.bsky.social with their talk: Syncing from a non-Rails app with Multiple Database Connections — nwrug.org/events/augus...

Here's the writeup for my lightning talk (tekin.co.uk/2026/07/ten-...), along with a followup post on how to override the default Rails error message format without breaking the default error messages: tekin.co.uk/2026/07/over...

Here's the writeup for my lightning talk (tekin.co.uk/2026/07/ten-...), along with a followup post on how to override the default Rails error message format without breaking the default error messages: tekin.co.uk/2026/07/over...

Rails' embarrassing racist daddy is now calling for the ethnic cleansing of Europe over on his blog, but it's fine because he's nice to people at conferences.

Nice to see the `git history fixup` command added to Git 2.55. Handy for quickly amending previous commits in one go: github.blog/open-source/...

I’ve been doing more pattern matching in my Ruby code of late and boy is it neat when it fits to a problem. So good for working with deep nested hash structures from API responses. Check brightonruby.com/2022/stop-ig... by @tomstu.art Also h/t @rgarner.bsky.social for helping it click for me.

Keep repeating until the industry comes to its senses: in most software orgs writing code is rarely the bottle neck! cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-427-th...

As always had a lovely time catching up with Ruby friends old and new at @brightonruby.com #brightonruby

The central conceit in my Branch in Time talk was based on the surprising behaviour when calling .order() on an Active Record association that already has one baked in. Great to see default_order added as a way to avoid this surprise. github.com/rails/rails/...

I’ll be speaking at @brightonruby.com this year. Come and say hi! brightonruby.com

Haggis Ruby's is in just over a month, in the wonderful city of Glasgow! Get your tickets here: haggisruby.co.uk We're lucky to have an incredible list of speakers from across the community. If you want an idea of what the talks are like, videos from 2024 are here: www.youtube.com/@HaggisRubys...

Yer da is doing unreviewable drive by pull requests using his spicy autocomplete again github.com/Shopify/liqu...

Happy Twin Peaks day to all those that celebrate

Add under the we-are-cooked column WRT to the LLM age tomcasavant.com/your-search-...

The Discourse is a Distributed Denial-of-Service www.joanwestenberg.com/the-discours...

hey folks, i’m a rails / ruby dev with a bit over 10 years of experience professionally and i was just hit with my second layoff. looking for a new role would love to chat! #rails #ruby.

If (once again) people of colour being first on the chopping block on UK Traitors isn’t the perfect illustration of baked-in societal racism then I don’t know what is. Literally every time.

Happy New Year all! I’ll be otherwise occupied for the next while hanging out with my new bestie. See you on the other side.

I got this email: "Rich, Your creation of Clojure <sycophantic blather worthy of a third grader's homework assignment to write a letter to a public figure you don't know, using sources you don't understand, to express an emotion unfelt, with no intention whatsoever> Claude Haiku 4.5" Thanks AI!:

@freeagentapp.bsky.social is your onboarding flow broken? I can't see any way to "complete" the last two items. No matter how many times I follow those two top links, the actions remain and the flying start banner persists.

Interesting webinar happening next month for all you tech folks. tech.unions.org.uk

Last call for our meet-up happening tonight in Manchester! Come and hear @twnsnd.com share his story about how he started, scaled and eventually liquidated a Rails-based startup that reached a peak annual recurring revenue of £5 million. Register here to attend: nwrug.org/events/milli...

Just one week to go until our next event! Come hear @twnsnd.com share his story – Millions on Rails: A Two-Decade Retrospective on Scaling With Rails nwrug.org/events/milli...

show this to anyone else you know who also assumed DHH was just a normal conservative dude rather than a raging white supremacist lunatic

Shout out to Michael Lovitt, creator of rubular.com, easily one of my most used Ruby-related websites 🙏🏽

I have a growing number of unpurchasabels on my shopping list because Siri doesn’t understand me saying “puy lentils”. Alongside “toilet sauce” we now also have “foil lettuce”.

Brandon is right. Ruby Central needs broader funding to avoid even more consolidation of power in the Ruby ecosystem. I for one am committing to do my part.

The Ruby community has a DHH problem tekin.co.uk/2025/09/the-...

Ages ago, when I was still a student, I taught myself Ruby on Rails for my senior thesis and fell in love. Fifteen years later, and I’ve used Rails at every job I’ve ever held in the tech industry. Fifteen years, and I still love Rails! But there’s something rotten at its core, and we share a name.

Final reminder: Tonight at NWRUG we're hearing all about building mobile apps using Rails and Turbo Native. Register to attend and join us from 6:30pm nwrug.org/events/septe...