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tons of fun

San Francisco, CA
Joined June 2011
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I’m taking a step back from my open source and the Ruby community for my own mental health. I won’t be attending anymore conferences or meetups. I’ll still be pushing releases and responding to issues and PRs for my clients.
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SF Ruby crowd is the best! We now have a duck, an octopus, a cat, plus lots of pets with their humans! And I love Ashlee the Knight ❤️
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三次会!😆🙌🍻🍻 #kaigionrails
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Active Search is Basecamp's new gem: one search API for Rails across backends. Define an index, add has_search, then chain search, filter and highlight. Start on SQLite, Postgres or MySQL, move to Elasticsearch, Meilisearch or Typesense without rewriting queries. Still alpha.
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I'll be in SF next week! 🌁 If you're around, join me, @aarondfrancis, @samlambert (PlanetScale), and @grinich (WorkOS) for a founder's panel on building and shipping in these wild and crazy AI times. Sign up here: luma.com/laravel-43ty I'll also be hanging around @resend Forward next Wednesday! 💌
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We all have jobs... background jobs. Our head of backend, Vladimir Dementyev (@palkan_tula), gave a talk about them at Rails World. He shows how Active Job went from a thin compatibility layer to a foundational framework component. He ends by introducing Durable Continuations (open sourced), which give you workflow-level orchestration while sticking to the Rails way. Watch it here: youtube.com/watch?v=4dcv1a7e…
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Thank you, Pune ❤️ To our speakers, attendees, sponsors, supporters, volunteers, organising team and the Ruby community: you made Deccan Queen on Rails possible @hideccanqueen These slides are for everyone who helped make it happen. Thank you! 🚂💎
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Highlight for today, my Mom and my Mavshi(My second Mom- Mom’e sister!) are enjoying with my international Ruby family. This is peak for me ❤️ My life revolves around strong women who shape my life. This is our culture. Women are our Devi- goddess of wealth. A grand salute to all the women of @rails @AmandaBPerino @inazarova and so many more!
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When you think about a Ruby on Rails conference in India, what do you imagine? 💃💃💃Of course we danced, and not only on stage! At @hideccanqueen 🔥
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So so happy to be at @hideccanqueen Rails conference in Pune, India! Inspired by @sfrubyconf 🔥
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A wild @dhh appears at @hideccanqueen . Thanks so much for your inspiring message!
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Got it marked on my calendar! Can't wait! 😊
We are officially a go for next year. April 29th and 30th 2027. More info coming soon!
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Woah, this is crazy, we have 180 people attending @hideccanqueen over weekend it was hardly 100. It proves, we Indians optimize for our time and buy when absolutely sure we can attend haha. I do this all the time. I am so glad we are able to welcome such a huge @rails community!
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Communities and friendships are more fragile than you think. They are worth more than you think.
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I love this video and music SO much⚡️✨💫
Replying to @marcoroth_
The answer to "what does this enable?" is ReActionView v0.6, which introduces LiveView-like, fine-grained reactivity for Rails. You declare state in your view like strict locals, read it in plain Ruby, and write it from HTML attributes. Updates happen at the slot level, so only the changed values are updated. No JavaScript framework and no new file format needed.
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The answer to "what does this enable?" is ReActionView v0.6, which introduces LiveView-like, fine-grained reactivity for Rails. You declare state in your view like strict locals, read it in plain Ruby, and write it from HTML attributes. Updates happen at the slot level, so only the changed values are updated. No JavaScript framework and no new file format needed.
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Rails is the only framework that's had AI built in since day one.
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I'm honored and humbled to join the Rails core team. I'll be focusing on security and improvements to Active Storage and Action Text. Please reach out if you have thoughts on what would make your work easier.
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We're looking for Ruby and Rails startup success stories. We want you to take the stage if you've: - Achieved outstanding results with a small team - Built tooling to help others reach the same results - Used AI for scaling Submit a talk proposal before July 27. Link below.
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Cooking something 🧑‍🍳
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