Rails World 2025 was a blast – great talks, great people, and great energy.

We had the chance to talk to so many of you at our booth. A huge thank you to the Rails Foundation and AmandaPerino for the perfect organization, and to everyone who stopped by our booth!

We’ve collected our impressions, highlights & photos in a short recap:
πŸ‘‰ https://makandra.de/articles/recap-rails-world-2025-756

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Recap: Rails World 2025

Team makandra visited the Rails World conference! Once again with a large team – and for the first time – with a booth to support the conference and engage in conversation with as many people as possible.

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Using open-source in closed-source projects?
Make sure your dependencies don’t come with legal baggage.
This post shows how to use license_finder to validate licenses automatically and stay compliant.

πŸ‘‰ Details: https://makandracards.com/makandra/481903-automatically-validating-dependency-licenses-license

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Automatically validating dependency licenses with License Finder

"Open-source software (OSS) is great. Anyone can use virtually any open-source code in their projects." Well, it depends. Licenses can make things difficult, especially when you are developing clos...

Tired of noisy diffs from structure.sql in Rails?

We explain why it happens, when to use it over schema.rb, and how to make your SQL schema Git-friendly – with or without tooling.

Read on: https://makandracards.com/makandra/625028-rails-keeping-structure-sql-stable-developers

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Rails: Keeping structure.sql stable between developers

Why Rails has multiple schema formats When you run migrations, Rails will write your current database schema into db/schema.rb. This file allows to reset the database schema without running migrati...

Would you buy a product that explicitly advertises its AI function?

A new study shows: many wouldn’t – even if it’s better or cheaper.

The "with AI" label may hurt more than help.

Do you agree? How do you feel about tools or content with AI?

πŸ‘‰ Source: https://futurism.com/the-byte/study-consumers-turned-off-products-ai

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Study Finds Consumers Are Actively Turned Off by Products That Use AI

Researchers have found that including the words "artificial intelligence" in product marketing is a major turn-off for consumers.

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Does AI actually make experienced devs faster?

A new study presumes: no – it can even slow them down.

Seasoned OSS developers were 19% slower with AI tools than without – even if they perceived themselves as faster.

But why? AI generated code β†’ more time for understanding & reviewing β†’ less speed.

What’s your opinion about this distorted perception of workflow efficiency?

πŸ‘‰ Our blog article on the topic and sources:
https://makandra.de/en/articles/does-ai-accelerate-development-713

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Does AI accelerate development?

AI tools are considered productivity boosters – but do they deliver on their promise? And what does all this have to do with gambling in casinos? We asked our colleagues how they use AI in their everyday work as developers and what advice they would give to juniors on working with AI.

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🚨 Heroku has updated its guidelines for supported Rails versions.

We break down what’s changing, what it means for your stack β€” and how you can keep working with your old Rails version.
Read more πŸ‘‰ https://makandra.de/en/articles/heroku-rails-versions-end-of-life-675

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EOL Rails version with Heroku: How to keep your apps secure

It's official since March 17, 2025: Heroku has updated its guidelines for supporting Rails versions. These changes will affect many developers and teams who are still working with older Rails versions that have already reached end of life (EOL).

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⭐️ Hello Fediverse!
We’re makandra – a team from Augsburg, Germany, building, hosting, and maintaining long-lived Ruby on Rails applications for over 15 years. πŸ› οΈ

If you care about clean code, DevOps automation, and pragmatic Rails development, we’d love to connect.
Learn more: https://makandra.de

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makandra plans, develops, operates and designs complex web applications. As a full service agency we stand for reliability and results of outstanding quality.

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