Ruby in Different Contexts:

• Cookpad employed Ruby core team members but now there are staff reductions.
• DHH talked about two-person teams and Ruby/Rails on 37signals' podcast.
• Julia Evans often touches on Ruby related topics and shared some 'blogging myths'.
• Drifting Ruby's David Kimura dedicated an episode to approaches to displaying error pages in Rails apps.
• Rails recently merged a PR to update Action View to use HTML5 sanitization standards. HTML5 support is available in modern Nokogiri and the latest Loofah sanitization library.

Tutorials, Articles, and Videos:

• HexDevs' "Four Strategies To Remove Dead Code from a Ruby App" on how to remove stale code.
• Janko Marohnić's "Upgrading from Selenium to Cuprite" about performance gains and flaky test failures.
• Andrei Kaleshka's "A ChatGPT Rails App Optimization Example" using ChatGPT to convert Ruby code to SQL.
• Jorge Manrubia's "A Friday Email Incident at HEY" about a technical incident at 37signals.

Code & Tools:

• LangChain.rb: Build LLM-Backed Ruby Apps for modern AI workflows.
• JRuby 9.4.3.0: Ruby 3.1-compatible JVM Ruby implementation.
• Rufus Scheduler 3.9: In-process scheduler for Ruby.
• Excon 0.100: Fast HTTP/1.1 client.
• RubyMine 2023.2 EAP3: With updated RBS support and 'search everywhere' functionality.
• Async 2.6: Asynchronous I/O framework.
• Gruff Graphs 0.21: Chart rendering library.
• SidekiqExpiringJobs: Expiring job support for Sidekiq.
• Pay 6.6: Payments engine for Rails.
• IRB 1.7.0.