A Ruby gem to simplify using Slack Block Kit | Rails and beyond

I put together slack_layout, a Ruby gem that makes building Slack’s Block Kit layouts easy while keeping everything organized.Any method like the one above should catch your eye. The blocks stuff seemed to be something particular from Slack. Indeed, it is the spec to build Slack’s blocks (units for Slack’s Block Kit system). Roughly, it lets you compose rich UIs with these blocks. Did this mean we needed to do this JSON stuff every time we wanted to build this UI type? It seemed brittle. There probably was a better way.