We're back for 2026 and we're bringing the campfire to you. 🔥

Jim is packing the van and headed on a full US and Canada road trip with legs across the Pacific Northwest, Midwest, and East Coast.
Our infamous single-day conference is coming to a Ruby community near you.

Keep up with us at👇

xoruby.com

#XORuby #XORuby2026 #RubyCommunity #Rubyists #SoftwareEngineering #TechConference #SingleDayConference #NotYourAverageConference #Sustainability

## Please Don't Nerf RubyLang Because #StyleGuides

Ruby has made some internal changes that remind me of the changes #RSpec made to clean up internals but uglified the code & made certain features simply stop working as expected.

Removing `foo rescue nil` is an exmaple. Some edge cases make this antipattern useful; replacing a one-liner with a complex method/chain is annoying. Mindful chainsaw-juggling gave expert #Rubyists superpowers. Not trusting power users is red #Kryptonite for code.

So @adamwiggins left a note in the 📔 book

> Keep up the Ruby-ing!

Heroku and #Ruby go together like foxes and cleverness. Did you know #Heroku was born as a Ruby platform? In the early days, it was only for #Rubyists — #Rails and #gems, blocks & foxes, all running wild in the cloud.

So when Adam says “Keep up the Ruby-ing!”—he’s really saying:
Let your gems sparkle, and remember that every Heroku #dyno is just a little fox,
waiting to carry your dreams into the cloud.

#whysfoxes #WPGTRPage11

#Rubyists #Ruby

Riddle me this, in Ruby 3.4.2:

```Ruby

a = {
a: 'test' \
'test',
b: 'testing' \
'test',
c: 'test',
d: 'a test',
f: 'test' \
'test'
}

a.map { |k,v| v.frozen? }

# => [true, true, false, false, false]
```

For the #rubyists out there, should I use the new rails 8 auth generator or devise in a new #rails project?

It's my first time using Rails

#rubyonrails #ruby

#ProTip Never waste an opportunity to rant against language/ecosystem misfeatures! I never tire of complaining about the overuse of #FrozenStringLiterals in #RubyLang, or the over-reliance on community style guides as a stand-in for #codequality instead of using #TDD, intentional semantics, or good variables/comments.

If you don't trust other #Rubyists to understand `[].any? ? complain : shut_up` without an extra 4 lines of if/else bloat in your method, the real problem isn't the ternary!