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You better watch out (I’m telling you why): the latest release of our merry little #Ruby #WebDev framework is coming to town!
Yes indeed, Bridgetown 2.1 “Festive River City” is here, with, er, festive new features, a snappier CLI, under-the-hood refactoring & infrastructure work, and a celebration of Ruby 4.0 as we head into 2026.
Happy Holidays and we’ll see y’all in the New Year! 🎉 🎆
https://www.bridgetownrb.com/release/bridgetown-2-1-has-come-to-town-happy-holidays/
RE: https://ruby.social/@bridgetown/115657327427466486
Beta 2 of Bridgetown 2.1 "Festive River City" it out!
https://github.com/bridgetownrb/bridgetown/releases/tag/v2.1.0.beta2
It's mainly just a couple bugfixes. Assuming no additional unknowns, we're on track for a production release early next week!
Happy #Ruby Holidays! 🌟
Codenamed “Festive River City 🥳” (and coming a mere three months after the 2.0 release!)
With the end-of-year holidays upon us, we’re excited to be presenting several exciting new features and yet more under-the-hood refactoring & infrastructure work which sets us up well for future feature development in 2026.
One of our favorites: external content sources for file-based digital gardens, wikis, and more!
https://www.bridgetownrb.com/release/bridgetown-2-1-beta-1-festive-river-city/
Codenamed “Festive River City 🥳” (and coming a mere three months after the 2.0 release!)
With the end-of-year holidays upon us, we’re excited to be presenting several exciting new features and yet more under-the-hood refactoring & infrastructure work which sets us up well for future feature development in 2026.
One of our favorites: external content sources for file-based digital gardens, wikis, and more!
https://www.bridgetownrb.com/release/bridgetown-2-1-beta-1-festive-river-city/
Don’t Make Me Think Principle, Testing, and Intuitive Expectations
In this article, a new extension to Minitest Expectations by @jaredwhite is the perfect illustration for the DMMT philosophy of programming. Come along on a personal journey from learning #testing with RSpec, moving on to Minitest Assertions, then Expectations, and now? Intuitive Expectations, a brand new style provided by @bridgetown for use in any #Ruby application.
Solargraph for life!
(a #Ruby LSP that's not the “ruby-lsp” by Shopify)
FYI this is utilized *extensively* by the entire @bridgetown ecosystem and it rocks.
Hello #WebDev friends!
I'm hosting an #AMA today at Human Web Collective! I’ll start answering questions at 12pm Pacific Time, so ask away. Topics for discussion:
* “Vanilla” frontend techniques
* #WebComponents
* #CSS architecture/design systems/etc.
* Coding practices free from slop
* #HTML Frameworks / site generators
* Hosting
* What I had for breakfast
and more!
You can use/create your HWC account (preferred) or paste this in your fedi search for direct replies:
https://humansare.social/c/indie_web_dev/p/992/ama-about-indie-web-dev-november-2025-edition
ICYMI: we have a new #Matrix #chat room!
We’re not dumping Discord, but we want to offer a true #FOSS alternative. If you have't given @matrix a look in a while, the UX for Element has improved significantly and using it is…fun? 😁
Drop in and give us a hearty hello! 👋
Happy Halloween! 🎃
In unrelated news (unless you find decentralized networking protocols to be spooooky), we have a new #Matrix #chat room.
It'd not a replacement for our Discord, we just want to offer a true #FOSS alternative. @matrix has clearly worked hard lately on good UX for Element and it appears to be pretty snazzy!
Stop on by and say Hi! 👋
Congrats y'all on the full launch of Web Awesome!
And just a reminder, we have a one-line command to install Web Awesome in a Bridgetown site:
bin/bridgetown configure webawesome
That's it! 😅
P.S. One of our core team emeritus has worked really hard on WA to get it to the finish line…way to go @konnorrogers! 👏
https://mastodon.social/@webawesome/115453317535597903
Fullstack Ruby
Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊)