Hacker News with Generative AI: Rails

RailsConf 2025 will be the last gathering of its kind (rubycentral.org)
We are excited to officially announce that the final RailsConf will be taking place from Tuesday, July 8th to Thursday, July 10th, 2025, in Philadelphia, PA. 🎉
Voctoweb – the front end and back end software behind media.ccc.de (github.com/voc)
Voctoweb is a rails application that provides a “YouTube like” user interface to video, audio and pdf files; a meta data editor; and APIs. For more infomation about relations to other components see c3voc Wiki.
Thruster – HTTP/2 proxy for Rails apps with built-in Let's Encrypt and caching (github.com/basecamp)
Thruster is an HTTP/2 proxy for simple production-ready deployments of Rails applications.
Hotwire Spark: live reloading for Rails applications (37signals.com)
Today, we are releasing Hotwire Spark, a live-reloading system for Rails Applications.
37signals Dev – A vanilla Rails stack is plenty (37signals.com)
Minimal dependencies, maximum productivity. Staying vanilla pays long term dividends for your Rails apps.
Django and Postgres for the Busy Rails Developer (andyatkinson.com)
About 10 years ago I wrote a post PostgreSQL for the Busy MySQL Developer, as part of switching from MySQL to Postgres for my personal and professional projects, wherever I could.
Rails is better low code than low code (radanskoric.com)
“We need a very simple CRUD app for managing the reservations.” They1 said. “Don’t spend too much time on it.” They added.
Rails 8.0 and More (world.hey.com)
Ruby on (Guard)Rails (mikemcquaid.com)
I’ve worked on a few Ruby apps in my career at varying scales:
Rails 8.0 Beta 1: No PaaS Required (rubyonrails.org)
Deploying modern web apps – with all the provisions needed to be fast and secure while easily updateable – has become so hard that many developers don’t dare do it without a PaaS (platform-as-a-service). But that’s ridiculous. Nobody should have to pay orders of magnitude more for basic computing just to make deployment friendly and usable. That’s a job for open source, and Rails is ready to solve it.
Rails 8: It's more fun to be competent [video] (youtube.com)
Hunting for Gems: How Ruby's package management system evolved (railsexplained.com)
It’s time for another installment in our series on loading code in Rails.
SQLite on Rails: The how and why of optimal performance (fractaledmind.github.io)
Over the last year or so, I have found myself on a journey to deeply understand how to run Rails applications backed by SQLite performantly and resiliently.
Rails 8: 15,000 requests/second with SQLite on $220/month EPYC 48-core Hetzner (twitter.com)
Scaling Rails and Postgres to millions of users at Microsoft (stepchange.work)
YC Ruby Meetup: Ruby and Rails Powering YC Startups in 2024 (ycombinator.com)
Rails 7.2 Beta 1: Better production defaults, Dev containers, new guides design (rubyonrails.org)
The Future of Ruby and Rails in the Age of AI (medium.com)