In this episode of 'On Rails', @GustoHQ's Miguel Conde and Peter Compernolle join @robbyrussell to share how they’ve evolved from a single massive monolith to a “biolith” architecture built for scale and compliance. They talk about defining system boundaries, taming legacy code

This week there were 22 contributors to the Rails codebase. This week’s newsletter contained PRs by: @flavorjones @lucasmazza @jeromedalbert @bhumi1102 Richard Lynch Find all the week’s contributors here:

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This Week in Rails is out! Among the changes this week: - Summary report on CI - End of Support updates - Add algorithm option to `has_secure_password` - Add callable support to `allow_nil` and `allow_blank` in validations Read that and more at: https://t.co/TraBEHAxrh

New Rails Releases: * 7.0.10 * 7.1.6 * 7.2.3 * 8.0.4 * 8.1.1 And End of Support Announcement for 7.0 and 7.1. Rails 8.0 also got its supported extended by 6 more months. It will be supported until May 7, 2026. https://t.co/eu1xyQtSrA

What makes Rails feel so 'Railsy'? In his #RailsWorld talk, @excid3 shares the expressive, human-readable qualities that make #Rails special, and how you can use the same techniques with DSLs, generators, and concerns to make your own code fit elegantly within the Rails

Rails 8.1 has been released! It includes job continuations, structured events, local CI, registry-free deployments, and so much more. Over 500 contributors has code in this new version 🤘

In this episode of `On Rails`, @robbyrussell is joined by Alexander Stathis of @AngelList, where #Rails powers complex investment, accounting, and banking business logic across a modular monolith. They cover a lot of ground, including how AngelList uses gradual typing to

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We’ve been going deeper with the On Rails podcast. Longer conversations. Less hype. More of what’s been tested in the real world. I loved hearing in-person feedback back at Rails World. Podcasting can feel one-directional, so your messages, reviews, and shares really do help

This week there were 34 contributors to the Rails codebase. This week’s newsletter contained PRs by: @baarde @Julien_ANNE Petrik de Heus (p8) @benngarcia57 Daniel Niknam (daniel-niknam) Jonas Pardeyke (pardeyke) @bezludny @JarrettLusso Sean Doyle (seanpdoyle) Find all the

This Week in Rails is out! Among the changes lats week: - Rails 8.1.0.rc1 was released! - Support for bound SQL literals in CTEs were added - And quite a lot more. Check out the highlights at: https://t.co/cFx4UZBL2t

In addition to `retry_on` and `discard_on`, Rails includes an `after_discard` callback, which can be used for cleanup or logging. This callback allows you to define a block that runs just before a job is discarded. Note that the exception will still be raised after the block has

Is the American Dream Dead? Believe it or not, the American dream is still alive; it just costs more, which of course makes it harder to obtain, but not impossible. The “dream” was never guaranteed anyway, it was the idea that if you’re willing to work, adapt, and take some

The newest add-on tutorial is now live on the Rails tutorials page! In this guide, you learn how to add Wishlist functionality to the e-commerce demo app you already started. By following this tutorial, you'll also learn: • Counter caches to track wishlist items • Friendly

At #RailsWorld, @rosapolis shared how @37signals tackled one of #Hotwire's most requested features: offline mode. After years of custom workarounds, her team took on the challenge using service workers. Long used in PWAs, they're full of gotchas, and making them work correctly in

Rails 8.1.0.rc1 has been released. See https://t.co/UVFJMQXO5w for the list of changes since 8.1.0.beta1 and https://t.co/TkrbrRRLul for the list of highlights. Expect the final release in 1 week.

As #SQLite support has improved, it's finally possible to have truly multi-tenant Rails applications without sacrificing performance or ease of use. At #RailsWorld, @flavorjones described a production-vetted approach to isolating tenant data everywhere in Rails: the database,

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This week there were 24 contributors to the codebase. This week’s newsletter contained PRs by: @adamrdaniels @ybiquitous @seanpdoyle @jevinsew @siaw23 @tn961ir Nicholas La Roux (larouxn) @bhumi1102 See all the week’s contributors here:

This Week in Rails is out! Updates to the Rails framework this week include: - Link-local IP ranges now trusted by default in RemoteIp middleware - 'has_secure_password' reset token expiry is now configurable - New request.variant API for context-specific rendering - Small DX

New documentation PR is up for community review: The Rails Initialization Guide covers how Rails boots up, including the internal method calls, file load order, and how to hook into the initialization process. If you want to help by reviewing, find the PR here:

Blastoff Rails (@blastoffrails), a new regional Rails conference, is coming to New Mexico, June 11-12, 2026. For everyone who loves building with Rails. Early Bird tickets and CFP now open →