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DHH’s opening keynote at Rails World 2026: “The most confusing funeral I’ve ever experienced” : Global Nerdy

Mon, 28 Sep 2026 05:13:39 +0000

This was the flagship keynote for the framework’s premier gathering, and it felt less like an affirmation of Rails’ future and more like an intellectual abandonment of its foundational craft, delivered by a creator increasingly insulated from the core community that used, supported, and helped build Rails alongside him.

Tags: #ai #dhh #rails

Submitted for Your Approval

Wed, 28 Jan 2026 23:49:27 +0000

The blog demo was a real Rails application running full stack in your browser. Action Cable over BroadcastChannel. Active Record over IndexedDB. The editor runs on WebContainers — Node.js and npm, entirely in browser memory. The same patterns, the same code structure, no server. What originally motivated this is now child's play to build. I want judges to be able to record scores during an event despite unreliable Wi-Fi. Downloading the agenda and that judge's scores entered to date and then running the existing ERB views over IndexedDB just works. Posting updates in real time when possible and batch when connectivity resumes is straightforward. Since each judge records their own scores, there are no merge conflicts. Mount the resulting offline SPA via Rack middleware, and everything works transparently.

Tags: #localfirst #rails #webdev

In Praise of dhh

Mon, 10 Nov 2025 22:02:02 +0000

The tent is being made smaller. To stay in the tent going forward you will increasingly be forced to agree with David. I’ve been involved with Ruby for seventeen years: why am I the one being pushed out in order to make space for toxic and abusive dudes?

Tags: #dhh #rails #ruby #webdev

DHH and Omarchy: Midlife crisis – Rust in Peace

Thu, 06 Nov 2025 05:30:29 +0000

Here’s a dude who barely had any time to confront the world before failing into an infinite money glitch in the form of Ruby on Rails, Jeff Bezos throwing him crazy money, Apple bundling his software as a highlighted feature, becoming a “new work” celebrity and Silicon Valley “Guru”. Is it any surprise that such a person later would find the most minuscule kind of opposition as an all-out attack on his self-image?

Tags: #dhh #rails #tech #ugh

The Ruby community has a DHH problem | tekin.co.uk

Tue, 23 Sep 2025 23:59:04 +0000

Silence and appeasement is only emboldening DHH to ratchet up the toxicity and allowing the damage to continue. Perhaps if enough of those in positions of power call him out on his bullshit he’ll at at least follow his own advice and keep his politics to himself. More importantly though, it will send a clear message to the wider Ruby community (and those who may be considering joining it) that the majority does not stand with DHH and his toxic views.

Tags: #dhh #rails #ruby #webdev

Rewrite it in Rails | old man rambling

Mon, 04 Nov 2024 23:38:34 +0000

Interestingly, all of the things that used to annoy me about Ruby and Rails now annoy me much, much, much less. I have accepted that there is no perfect language or framework. You just have to know its strengths and weaknesses and deal with them. Luckily, there are some really good frameworks out there for people who want to focus on building a good product. I think Rails is probably one of the best, but there are a lot of other long-lived frameworks with lots of active contributors that are probably just as good. It might still be worth it to choose a more exotic language, framework or to dive in and write your own. If only for the opportunity to learn these kinds of lessons on your own.

Tags: #dev #rails #ruby #software #webdev

The Sun is Setting on Rails-style MVC Frameworks « caines.ca/blog

Sat, 25 Feb 2012 06:06:51 +0000

Rails-style MVC frameworks are both too much, and not enough at the same time. It really is time for a new framework to support this new architecture.

Tags: #http #imported:pinboard #rails #rest #webdev

The Sun is Setting on Rails-style MVC Frameworks « caines.ca/blog

Sat, 25 Feb 2012 06:06:51 +0000

Rails-style MVC frameworks are both too much, and not enough at the same time. It really is time for a new framework to support this new architecture.

Tags: #http #rails #rest #webdev

Coffeescript: Joyful and Unreadable

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 02:41:32 +0000

That said, if making Javascript look and act kinda like Rails makes Rails devs happier, maybe it just means I’m not Ruby enough.

Tags: #coffeescript #javascript #rails #ruby #tech #webdev

Using Flat Files So Elections Don't Break Your Server - NYTimes.com

Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:24:27 +0000

In the Times Interactive News Department, we pay careful attention to caching strategy to make sure it’s a good fit for the project at hand.

Tags: #architecture #caching #performance #rails #webdev

binarylogic's authlogic at master - GitHub

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:43:23 +0000

"A clean, simple, and unobtrusive ruby authentication solution."

Tags: #auth #authentication #authlogic #plugin #rails #ruby #webdev

Giles Bowkett: Gay People, Come To Rails

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:55:16 +0000

Tags: #gay #homosexuality #morons #rails #webdev

OT: Rails is shitty [was top down programming in a bottom up language] - comp.lang.lisp | Google Groups

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 14:21:54 +0000

Tags: #rails #ruby #webdev

» PHP, WordPress, Ruby, and DiSo | monkinetic Archive

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 08:45:48 +0000

"Could an app like WordPress, easy for users of medium technical knowledge to run and customize, easy for developers to extend, and easy for hosts to provide, be written in Ruby? If so, how?"

Tags: #php #rails #ruby #webdev #wordpress

SQL on Rails

Thu, 11 Oct 2007 18:22:26 +0000

"Rails is a short-stack framework for developing database-contained web applications according to the Model-Model-Model pattern."

Tags: #funny #rails #sql #webdev