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📊 Only a few days left to participate in the 2026 Ruby on Rails Community Survey. Give your input and share it with your team! railsdeveloper.com/survey/
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"What are your favorite Rails-related blogs and newsletters?" The Rails Survey results are in- here's what you said!
Full survey results coming soon!
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Rails World was the top conference choice in the Ruby on Rails Community Survey this year. We hope you all get to go! And we'll see you there! ✈️ 🥳
(Full results will be live SOON!) ⏳️
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The Rails Survey is almost ready to share. In the meantime, if you're looking for great books to read, here are the top 10 Rails-related books the community recommends.
How many have you read? 📚️
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We’re just a few days away from Rails World in Austin.
Looking forward to catching up with old friends, meeting some new ones, and revisiting Austin. It’s been a few years.
I’ll be giving my keynote, “The Most Valuable Engineer Isn’t Shipping Features,” on Tuesday afternoon. I’ve been tinkering with this one for a while… looking forward to finally sharing it.
Keep an eye out for a number of my fellow @planetargon teammates, too. We’ll be wandering around and would love to talk shop… @rails, legacy apps, modernization, AI, or whatever you’re curious about these days.
Come find us. Let’s unpack a few things together. 🤠
ALT Illustrated portrait of Robby Russell holding a Rails World Austin 2026 tote bag inside Waterloo Records, wearing a tweed jacket, bow tie, and pin. A speech bubble reads, “See you next week in Austin, ActiveNerds.”
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Planet Argon retweeted
Packing for Rails World…
More than two months ago, I started writing my keynote by disappearing into the forest near the Oregon coast for a few days. Just me, stacks of notecards, yellow notepads, a lot of trees… and some runs on the beach to let the ideas wander.
I’ve been wondering, unpacking, and tinkering with those ideas since... and am looking forward to finally sharing some of what I’ve been thinking about with everyone in Austin this week.
Also, tacos. I've been thinking a lot about tacos.
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I've been turning down podcast guest and meetup speaking invites for the last several months, but I will have more availability this autumn/winter. Feel free to get in touch.
planetargon.com/speaking
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Planet Argon retweeted
In this week's episode of On Rails, @robbyrussell talks with Eddie Galindo (Engineering Lead) and Kagen Hearn (Senior Software Engineer) from Ascend, a platform helping insurance agencies automate the movement and reconciliation of money.
They dig into how a 5-year-old Rails app has scaled from a single co-founder's bootstrap project into a platform now processing millions of statement entries and billions of background jobs, all while staying on a shared Rails monolith.
Listen to the full episode at: podcast.rubyonrails.org/2462…
Or watch it on YouTube: piped.video/YpiEcaVKrkQ
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We asked the Ruby on Rails community about their favorite Rails-related technical podcasts.
Remote Ruby takes the top spot, but we found a familiar voice at #2 and #4. :)
Full survey results coming soon!
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24 years ago this week, @PlanetArgon got started. This photo was taken around that time.
You don’t have to know how something is going to pan out before you start.
Sometimes you just start… and see where it takes you.
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Here's a list of most of the speakers from the agenda (that we could track down)
nitter.net/i/lists/20880546881430…
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One small change at a time will make the biggest difference in the long-term health of your Rails app.
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AI lets your teams ship more code than ever, but that doesn't fix the things that were actually slowing them down. Slow feedback loops, fragile deploys, dependency sprawl, and years of overlapping architecture don't disappear just because a model wrote the patch. In his #RailsWorld keynote, @robbyrussell of @planetargon, and host of 'On Rails', the official Rails Foundation podcast, makes the case that the most valuable engineers right now are the ones improving the environment the code lives in, not just adding to it. You'll leave with a sharper sense of where your team's real leverage is hiding. rubyonrails.org/world/2026/s…
ALT Rails World logo with text: Speaker Announcement. Austin Texas. September 23-24, 2026. Robby Russell, CEO, Planet Argon
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Vault episode with a practical idea worth stealing: a TECHNICAL_DEBT.md file in your git repo.
Carlos Blé shares why naming technical debt explicitly rather than letting it hide changes how your whole team relates to it 🎧
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Planet Argon retweeted
Recently joined @jacksbridger on @ScalingDevTools to talk about how @ohmyzsh went from “please let my coworkers use my Git shortcuts” to… whatever this has become.
We got into open source maintenance, developer experience, AI-assisted PRs, and the weird afterlife of dotfiles.
robbyonrails.com/articles/20…
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Planet Argon retweeted
In this week's episode of On Rails, Bryce Harlan from Phamily walks @robbyrussell through a decade of decisions building a healthcare app in Rails, including an unconventional Rails 4 to 6 leap during the 2020 surge in virtual care, building their own "Action Responders" abstraction instead of reaching for GraphQL, and why they finally ripped out Mailboxer and built their own Conversation architecture...a decision that has held up years later.
Listen or watch wherever you get your podcasts: podcast.rubyonrails.org/2462…
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