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Introduction to Omakub, a Curated Ubuntu Environment by DHH - The New Stack
Although it sounds like a Genesis album from the 1980s, Omakub is actually a heavily curated Ubuntu environment. Its creator David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) describes Omakub as turning “a fresh Ubuntu installation into a fully-configured, beautiful...

GitHub - widefix/actual_db_schema: Wipe out inconsistent DB and schema.rb when switching branches.
Does switching between branches in your Rails app mess up the DB schema?Keep the DB schema actual across branches in your Rails project. Just install actual_db_schema gem and run db:migrate in branches as usual. It automatically rolls back the pha...



GitHub - ankane/transformers-ruby: State-of-the-art transformers for Ruby
Put down that Python – great things are continuing to happen for ML aficionados in Ruby. Andrew, now widely known for his work on pgvector, has shipped a way to use Torch.rb to use transformer models from Hugging Face directly from Ruby.Andrew Kane.

Rails 8 introduces a basic authentication generator - BigBinary Blog
Rails now include all the key building blocks needed to do basic authentication, but many new developers are still uncertain of how to put them together, so they end up leaning on all-in-one gems that hide the mechanics.To address this, Rails 8 ha...

The Ruby on Rails Podcast Episode 521: Euruko with Muhamed Isabegovic
EuRuKo (European Ruby Konferenz) is the largest and longest running annual Ruby conference in Europe, since 2003, that brings you all the good news about Ruby and its friends. Every year it takes place in a different European city, the location be...

Ruby on Rails — Rails 7.2: Better production defaults, Dev containers, new guides design, and more!
Rails 7.2 comes with better productions defaults to help you build more efficient applications.Starting with YJIT. YJIT is Ruby’s JIT compiler that is available in CRuby since Ruby 3.1. It can provide significant performance improvements for Rails...


The Hidden Costs of 'Cheap' Software Agencies: When Low Hourly Rates Lead to Sky-High Bills
Picture this: You're a US company with a simple task - updating the UX and styling of a few pages on your website. You hire an external agency that boasts competitive rates ranging from $30 to $50 per hour. Sounds like a bargain, right? But hold o...