if you had told me there were 10 different Ruby UI component libraries I would have said you’re smoking ERB.

and yet.

sound off in the replies, which do you use?
https://blog.superails.com/rails-ui-kits

this is insanely cool. if you told me you could write an LLM coding agent in 95 lines of ruby, i would say you’re crazy.

…but if you proved it by doing it? https://radanskoric.com/articles/coding-agent-in-ruby

i think a big part of Python’s modern ubiquity (compared to Ruby) stems from 1. Python being more straightforward/ less ✨ magical than Ruby, and 2. Python having numpy and scipy as enablers to be the “picks & shovels” language of AI and big data, two huge trends to ride.

Ruby being seen as beautiful and web-centric, two things I personally love, are double edged swords when the web is seen as older, and magic can slow onboarding.

i think that’s the vast majority of it. https://floss.social/@codeDude/114492856636870298

my kingdom for a top level config directory that contains and encapsulates all this loose clutter

(the real issue, of course, being not the lack of the config directory, but the lack of a shared belief that all these tools should work out out of that directory rather than needing to have their config files live at the root)

i need to follow more folks on my rails journey

who are some active ruby & rails focused posters on here? feel free to repost