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Upgrading Rails Using AI: When It Helps and When It Lies
Upgrading Rails Using AI: When It Helps and When It LiesWe used AI throughout a full Rails upgrade — six framework hops, five Ruby hops, eleven versions in total. Not as an experiment. As a real tool, integrated into the daily workflow from the first hop to the last. It sav...
Rafael Peña-Azar
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August 26, 2026
Hosting Untrusted, AI-Generated HTML: Three Security Boundaries
Building a self-contained interactive page takes minutes now, and increasingly a model does it. The hosting was built on the assumption that who...
Islam Gagiev
August 26, 2026
Translating Rich Documents with AI using Ruby_LLM
LLMs are genuinely good at translation. Send a model a few paragraphs and you get a natural, fluent version back, it feels almost trivial. Trans...
Joao Gilberto Saraiva
August 25, 2026
Updated August 26, 2026
Outsourced Software Development Companies: 5 That Got It Right
Google, Alibaba, Slack, Skype and AppSumo all outsourced software development. Two of them are among the largest companies on earth, one was bought...
Andrew Parshukov
March 08, 2023
Updated August 20, 2026
From Rails 5.2 to 7.2 in 4 Months: How JetRockets Unstuck Fera.ai's Production Platform
The situation Fera.ai has been running since 2017. By the time they reached out to JetRockets, their platform was on Ruby 2.7.6 and Rails 5.2 —...
Natalie Kaminski
August 02, 2026
Women in Tech: Why are only 10% of software engineers female?
What Percent of Software Engineers Are Female?Women make up 20.3 percent of software developers in the United States, according to the Bureau of...
Natalie Kaminski
February 06, 2023
Updated July 31, 2026
How to Scale Ruby on Rails: Architecture, Database, and Caching at Scale
Scaling Ruby on Rails means pulling a handful of architectural levers in the right order, and that order almost always starts with the database....
Igor Aleksandrov
July 15, 2026
Rodauth Rails Authentication: The 2026 Guide to Secure, Feature-Complete Auth
Rodauth is a full-featured authentication framework for Ruby, built on the Roda web toolkit and the Sequel database library, and you can use it ...
Igor Aleksandrov
July 09, 2026
We Rebuilt Our SDLC on GitHub So AI Agents Could Pick Up Tickets
Why we left Asana, how a GitHub Projects board became the control panel of our SDLC, and what GitHub wouldn't let us do along the way.
Islam Gagiev
July 06, 2026
Updated July 09, 2026
What is Vibe Coding? The 2026 Guide for Founders, Engineering Leaders, and Anyone Building With AI
One year after Andrej Karpathy coined the term on February 2, 2025, vibe coding has moved from a provocative tweet into a real conversation abou...
Natalie Kaminski
November 18, 2025
Updated July 03, 2026
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