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- Pulp Opus
- Nokogiri, Loofah and Crass, Compiled
- Herb on Rails
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Nokogiri, Loofah and Crass, Compiled
Originally appeared on Sam Ruby.I built these for Roundhouse, which compiles Rails applications, and Campfire needs all three: Action Text sanitizes every message through rails-htm...
Herb on Rails
Originally appeared on The Rails Tech Debt Blog.ERB does not know that it is generating HTML. It finds the <% %> tags, evaluates the Ruby inside them, and concatenates everyt...
Docs-as-code для медицинских систем: как перевести 1160 страниц из MS Word в Asciidoctor и автоматизировать сборку
Вам в наследство досталось руководство пользователя МИС на 1160 страниц в формате .docx, тысячи повторяющихся скриншотов, процесс обновления вызывает глубокую грусть. Что с этим «д...
How to Perform Spec-Driven Development From the Command Line
Run spec-driven development with Claude Code from the terminal: Spec Kit writes spec.md, plan.md, and tasks.md, and Kane CLI tests the build against the spec.
Rails World ‘26: Lexxy for Action Text
Originally appeared on The Rails Tech Debt Blog.I was in the audience at Rails World 2026 for Jorge Manrubia’s talk on Lexxy, a new rich text editor for Action Text. Jorge is a Pri...
Spring REST Docs + Asciidoctor: Automated API Documentation
Ask any backend developer what they hate most about maintaining a REST API, and somewhere near the top of the list you’ll hear “the docs are lying again.” Someone changed a field n...
Rails Hyperdrive: supercharged agentic development for Rails
Shipping skills could soon mean as much as READMEs. As AI writes more, libraries that teach agents to correctly use their APIs will win. Rails Hyperdrive lets gems distribute agent...
A new version of bidi2pdf is out
The highlight of this release is built-in support for Claude Code skills. The repository now includes a Claude Code plugin with skills that help AI agents generate PDFs, troublesho...
readword: word .doc and .docx files to markdown, in plain ruby
i kept needing to feed word files to llms and coding agents, and reading old .doc files from ruby always meant shelling out to libreoffice or antiword. so i wrote readword, its pla...
Rails' next rich text editor hits 1.0
Originally appeared on Ruby Weekly. #819 — October 1, 2026 Read on the Web Ruby Weekly Lexxy 1.0: Rails' New Ric...
рџ’Ћ Issue 542 - Grubby: Static site generator for Git repos written in Ruby
Originally appeared on Awesome Ruby Newsletter.
Asgard 0.5.0 adds dynamic task execution on file/directory changes
Asgard 0.5.0 adds a file watcher to the Ruby task runner. In a project’s .loki, watch :test, paths: %w[lib test], only: /\.rb\z/ declares which files a task cares about, and asgard...
Catch Broken HTML Before Deploy with Rails' New Herb Template Engine
Originally appeared on Code With Rails.Rails 8.2 compiles HTML+ERB templates through Herb, an HTML-aware ERB engine that rejects unclosed tags at compile time. Add bin/rails herb:c...
Attractive.js 1.0.0: interactive HTML without one line of JavaScript
Originally appeared on Rails Designer Blog.I wrote a JavaScript library. Again (or rather I rewrote the JavaScript library I wrote some time ago). I had the idea for Attractive for...
typst-rails: use Typst for PDF production in Rails
Just released typst-rails, a PDF templating solution for Rage and Rails apps:
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