📺How DHH Solved Deploying to Production (with open source)

Kamal is an open source alternative to Vercel, Heroku and others.

You can set it up yourself, on your laptop, raspberry pi, or a remote unused server.
It comes with all the bells an whistles you'd expect including CI, monitoring, secrets management, rolling updates and notifications.

💻Senior Ruby on Rails Developer at SOFTSWISS

We're hiring a Senior Ruby on Rails Dev (4+ years) to join the Casino Platform team.

🔧 Stack:
Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis, Sidekiq, K8s, Docker

📌 Responsibilities:
— Build & optimize backend services
— Design scalable architecture
— Code reviews & mentoring
— Explore new tech

✅ Requirements:
— Strong Ruby & SQL skills
— PostgreSQL, algorithms, OOP
— English & Russian (B1+)

🎁 Benefits:
— Private health insurance (contract-based)
— Mental health support
— Paid gym memberships
— Online English lessons
— +1 day off annually
— Referral bonuses
— Events & conferences

📍 Flexible format, salary discussed at interview
📍Send CV
📍Interview process description
📩 Recruiter contact: @tatsiana156

👩‍💻 Kamal DevOps

The first Kamal video course

Kamal DevOps is the missing video course for Kamal coming with 2 videos, 2 provisioning templates, and 2 Kamal configurations so you can deploy your application on your own terms. Kamal is a simple tool for automating deployments. You just add a server IP address and 'kamal deploy' will deploy your application.

kamalcourse.com

🖼️ Introducing On Rails: A New Podcast 🎙️ from the Rails Foundation

The Rails Foundation wanted to launch a new podcast featuring “Rails devs talking about the nitty gritty technical decisions they’ve made along the way” – now it’s here, hosted by Robby Russell. You can listen to the first episode here featuring 37signals’ Rosa Gutiérrez talking about her team’s work building Solid Queue.

📺 💻 DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting | Lex Fridman Podcast

David Heinemeier Hansson (aka DHH) is a legendary programmer, creator of Ruby on Rails, co-owner & CTO of 37signals that created Basecamp, HEY, & ONCE, and is a NYT-best-selling author (with Jason Fried) of 4 books: REWORK, REMOTE, Getting Real, and It Doesn't Have To Be Crazy At Work. He is also a race car driver, including a class-winning performance at the 24 hour Le Mans race.

💻Native integrations for Hotwire Native apps

Planning to build native apps with Rails? You’ll definitely need Bridge Components.

Hotwire Native enables seamless communication between native Swift and Kotlin code and web views in hybrid mobile apps. Bridge components extend this functionality by providing reusable native components that interact your web views. They enable developers to break out of the web view container and drive native features.

Add production-ready bridge components to your app without writing any custom Swift or Kotlin.

masilotti.com/bridge-components

You can also get access to advanced components and priority support: pro components

💻 How large companies build architecture: solutions, technologies, approaches

📦 Version control and API management

They use Garage Extension — an extension to the monolith (Rails), configured separately via a client.
Required: Rails / Sinatra, gRPC / JSON API, CI/CD (e.g., GitHub Actions, CircleCI)

🔗 Microservice communication

Challenge: requests between many services → complexity, latency, fault tolerance.
Solution: GenExpediter — a Ruby equivalent of Netflix Hystrix.

Required: concurrent-ruby, Redis / Kafka / RabbitMQ for queues, Sidekiq / Resque, Circuit breaker + fallback logic, Monitoring: Prometheus + Grafana

🏗 Lego-style architecture approach
Rails is minimalist but flexible. Want a monolith — keep it. Want microservices — add them.

Options: Dry-rb — clean architecture, Hanami — for stricter structure, Event Sourcing via RailsEventStore, gRPC / JSON-RPC for inter-service communication

📺Rails New with typecraft

Want to learn Ruby on Rails from scratch and build your first fully functional web app? Then this 10-part video series from typecraft_dev is just what you need!

📦 In each episode, you’ll:

- Install Rails and run rails new
- Learn the Rails philosophy and core concepts (MVC, scaffolding, CRUD)
- Style your app with TailwindCSS
- And finally — deploy it all with Kamal

💻 Exactly 21 years ago, DHH introduced the world to the first version of Rails — v0.5.0 — with the words: "this piece will grow in public."

He wasn’t wrong.

Since then, Ruby on Rails has become the foundation for thousands of companies around the world, grown with the support of countless developers, and stayed true to its core principles: simplicity, elegance, and productivity.

Rails 0.5.0 marked the end of vaporware — and the beginning of a new era in web development.

Original announcement from July 24, 2004:

rubytalk.org/t/ann-rails-0-5-0-the-end-of-vaporware/12744/1

Want to build iOS and Android apps without leaving Rails?

At RailsConf 2025, Joe Masilotti showed how Hotwire Native lets you create native mobile apps using just HTML, CSS, and Rails.

One codebase — three platforms: Web, iOS, Android

Instant updates across all platforms

📺Watch the talk on YouTube

Only 31% of Rails developers use Stimulus, while the majority believes that Rails API + SPA architecture is “necessary.”
Inertia.js allows to build modern JS components without the SPA complexity:

💬 evilmartians.com/chronicles/simplicity-vanished-solving-the-mystery-with-inertia-js-and-rails

💻 New to Rails? The Rails Foundation just dropped fresh resources to help you level up:

rubyonrails.org/docs/tutorials

- A step-by-step tutorial to add Sign Up to your e-commerce app

- A brand new video series with Typecraft (don’t miss this!)

-A centralized Tutorials Hub to bring it all together