Hooking into ActiveRecord’s Connection Pool: A Clean Way to Enable PostgreSQL Row-Level Security

August 6, 2026 Most Rails applications that implement multi-tenancy eventually face the same question: Where should the PostgreSQL tenant context be established? Many implementations set the tenant at the controller or middleware level. While that identifies the current tenant, it doesn't necessarily guarantee that every database connection carries the correct PostgreSQL session state. A cleaner … Continue reading Hooking into ActiveRecord’s Connection Pool: A Clean Way to Enable PostgreSQL Row-Level Security →

RSpec Expectations: You’re Probably Using the Wrong Matcher

RSpec Expectations: You're Probably Using the Wrong Matcher August 3, 2026 If you've been writing Ruby tests for a while, chances are you've reached for eq more times than you can count. While it works for many scenarios, RSpec Expectations offers a much richer vocabulary for expressing intent. Choosing the right matcher isn't just about … Continue reading RSpec Expectations: You’re Probably Using the Wrong Matcher →

Understanding the Rails Middleware Stack

Understanding the Rails Middleware Stack July 31, 2026 Middleware is one of the core building blocks of every Ruby on Rails application, yet many developers never interact with it directly. Every incoming HTTP request passes through a chain of middleware before it reaches your routes and controllers, and every response travels back through the same … Continue reading Understanding the Rails Middleware Stack →

Ruby Association Activity Report 2026: Matz, Fastly, and Ruby Grant Projects Take the Stage

July 27, 2026 The Ruby Association has announced the Ruby Association Activity Report 2026, an in-person event that will showcase recent developments across the Ruby ecosystem, including keynote presentations, invited talks, and the results of the Association's 2025 development grant program. The event will take place on August 4, 2026, in Tokyo, Japan. Matz to … Continue reading Ruby Association Activity Report 2026: Matz, Fastly, and Ruby Grant Projects Take the Stage →

Ruby May Finally Fix the Famous “Norway Problem”

Ruby May Finally Fix the Famous "Norway Problem" July 21, 2026 The Ruby ecosystem may soon take an important step toward modern YAML support. Hiroshi SHIBATA (hsbt), a Ruby core developer, has introduced an experimental backend for the Psych library based on libfyaml, bringing full YAML 1.2 compliance closer to Ruby. While this might sound … Continue reading Ruby May Finally Fix the Famous “Norway Problem” →

Why Ruby’s Issue Tracker Still Links to a 1991 Paper About Floating-Point Numbers

Why Ruby's Issue Tracker Still Links to a 1991 Paper About Floating-Point Numbers July 8, 2026 If you've ever been surprised by this in Ruby: (2.0 - 1.1) == 0.9 # => false you're not alone. Many developers initially assume this is a Ruby bug. It isn't. In fact, Ruby's own issue tracker includes a … Continue reading Why Ruby’s Issue Tracker Still Links to a 1991 Paper About Floating-Point Numbers →

How to Safely and Efficiently Transform Payloads in Ruby and Ruby on Rails Workflows

July 2, 2026 Modern applications rarely consume external data exactly as it arrives. Whether you're integrating with payment gateways, CRMs, ERPs, or third-party APIs, incoming payloads almost always need to be normalized, enriched, or reshaped before they can be processed. A common workflow looks like this: Incoming Payload │ ▼ Transformation Layer │ ▼ Normalized … Continue reading How to Safely and Efficiently Transform Payloads in Ruby and Ruby on Rails Workflows →

Dependabot Resolves Remaining Bundler 4 Compatibility Issues

Dependabot Resolves Remaining Bundler 4 Compatibility Issues July 1, 2026 Teams adopting Bundler 4 can breathe a little easier. After several weeks of community reports and investigation, the remaining compatibility issues between Dependabot and Bundler 4 have now been addressed through merged fixes in dependabot-core. The fixes resolve two separate issues that affected projects relying … Continue reading Dependabot Resolves Remaining Bundler 4 Compatibility Issues →

Design Patterns, the Ruby Way (Part 3): Behavioral Patterns in Real Ruby Applications

Design Patterns, the Ruby Way (Part 3): Behavioral Patterns in Real Ruby Applications June 30, 2026 In the previous article, we explored how Ruby simplifies many creational and structural design patterns. But some of the most interesting patterns aren't about creating or organizing objects. They're about how objects collaborate. Behavioral patterns define how responsibilities are … Continue reading Design Patterns, the Ruby Way (Part 3): Behavioral Patterns in Real Ruby Applications →

Design Patterns, the Ruby Way (Part 2): Modern Creational and Structural Patterns

Design Patterns, the Ruby Way (Part 2): Modern Creational and Structural Patterns June 28, 2026 In the first article of this series, we explored why Ruby changes the way developers think about design patterns. Features like duck typing, modules, blocks, and delegation often replace the ceremony required in more rigid object-oriented languages. Now it's time … Continue reading Design Patterns, the Ruby Way (Part 2): Modern Creational and Structural Patterns →