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The RubyGems team has published an update on the May spam-publishing campaign on rubygems.org, following recent reporting from The Wall Street Journal and research from Nightingale Collective. buff.ly/qU21FCK
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Three days of Beautiful Ruby, Weird Ruby, and Living with the Robots @RubyConf. Lots of feelings about where Ruby is headed.
YJIT. Ractors. AI that doesn't feel like a compromise. A generation who's never known life without Rails.
What excites you most about Ruby's future?
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RubyGems.org now handles tens of billions of gem downloads a year with modern auth, verifiable publishing, and 24/7 coverage.
Thanks to Ruby Shield, our 4-year security partnership with Shopify. Here's our reflection as it wraps up: buff.ly/YwpC9qK
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They are here🎉
The RubyConf 2026 talk recordings are officially live. Every keynote, every session, every moment you wished you could have been in two rooms at once.
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Which one are you watching first?
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The August 2026 README is here. We're behind the curtain this month: What's going on at Ruby Central, the engineering team shares updates on GSoC and security work, and much more.
Read the full newsletter → buff.ly/qRXbGGy
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This week: Reuter Regis (Rjort).
"To this day, Ruby is the language with the most beautiful syntax and readability for me."
A considered opinion from someone who has seen the alternatives. Ruby still wins.
What's your Why I Ruby? We'd love to share it:
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Meet Shuveksha Tuladhar, one of our RubyConf 2026 Scholars! She gave her first-ever lightning talk, made new friends, and even got to meet Matz at her first RubyConf. Read her story: buff.ly/WxbO4Xr
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We have been sharing Ruby community stories, and we want more of them🥰
Someone out there is going to read your story and feel less alone in theirs.
Three prompts, choose what to share:
Why I Ruby...
My Ruby Story Started...
I Wish I Knew/Heard...
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MINASWAN in action: Ruby Central's Scholars & Guides Program pairs aspiring Rubyists with experienced mentors at RubyConf. Scholars find their footing. Guides find it just as rewarding.
Full story: buff.ly/MG4w3fV
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If you could only walk away with one swag item, what is actually worth the bag space?👀 No wrong answers.
1️⃣ Small and packable (stickers, pins, keychains)
2️⃣ A t-shirt
3️⃣ A tote or bag
4️⃣ Something useful (mug, tumbler, tech accessory)
5️⃣ Other (tell us!)
Share below🧐
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Meet KJ Loving, one of our RubyConf 2026 Scholars! KJ found Ruby through Code the Dream and The Odin Project, and found a community that felt like home. Read their story, including advice for first-time conference attendees.
Read KJ's full story: buff.ly/bb9ITV4
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Every year the Scholars and Guides program reminds us why we do this. This year's cohort showed up with curiosity, courage, and stories that made our hearts soar. Beautiful gems, every one.
To every Scholar and Guide at RubyConf 2026: thank you. You belong here. Always have.
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RubyGems and Bundler 4.0.18 are out. bundle lock and bundle cache now accept a --cooldown flag, and the release also carries a long list of bug fixes.
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🎉Welcome to the Ruby Alliance, Rubyroid Labs!💎
We're excited to welcome them as a Ruby Alliance Supporter.
Their investment helps sustain the Ruby ecosystem and the open source infrastructure developers rely on every day.
Thanks for supporting Ruby!❤️
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Ruby Runway Spotlight: Joe Masilotti's Ruby Native ships real native iOS and Android apps from your existing Rails HTML and ERB. No Swift, no Kotlin. Here's his story, and his advice on charging early to test an idea fast.
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The July README is out! RubyConf 2026 retrospective, community spotlights, and a new way to support RubyGems.org.
Read it here → buff.ly/PyLKPGu
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Ruby Runway Spotlight: Michael Carroll of Coolhand Labs built an AI observability tool that cuts agent costs over 50%, and still maintains a Ruby gem when most AI dev tools have moved on.
Here's his story. buff.ly/JtmBLCK
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building a donation management system and crm for small nonprofits as a solo builder 🚀
-> mitcuora.ch (only in German for now, sorry)
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PSA: Critical Rails security release - a bug in Active Storage variant processing can allow unauthenticated users to read arbitrary files, including app secrets. Upgrade now.
github.com/rails/rails/secur…
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Scholars & Guides spotlight: Madeline Caples wrote a great mini-project on building a workflow for learning to code with AI as a study partner, not a shortcut. Developed while building a Rails Notes app at RubyConf 2026. Give them a read and a follow. 👉️buff.ly/sxMJkHY
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