Rails at Scale, Roundhouse Performance, and AI-Era Supply Chain Security

Andrew and Chris are back with a packed episode covering everything from Rails World anticipation and Rails 8.2 to security, Ractors, AI-assisted development, and some ambitious new Ruby tooling. They dig into RubyGems recent spam-publishing incident and Trusted Publishing, look at Shopify’s push toward Ractor-safe Rails, and explore Roundhouse, a project experimenting with compiling Rails applications into entirely different target languages. They also talk about using Claude for project planning and open source maintenance, new approaches to AI beyond traditional LLMs, the surprisingly inexpensive architecture behind Turbopuffer, PlanetScale’s new TIN search extension, and Andrew’s move from a small Sinatra deployment service to Cloudflare Workers. Hit download now! Links Chris Oliver X Andrew Mason Bluesky David Hill LinkedIn Judoscale- Remote Ruby listener gift Automating Ruby Gem Releases with GitHub Actions (by Andrew Mason) Marc Benioff MOGGED Sam Altman (John Smith X Post) @graphtheory X Post Ractor-age Rails: A Hot-To Guide (Rails at Scale) Roundhouse Introducing System One Models & Jev (TypeSafe AI blog post) Turbopuffer Ben Dicken X post (on inverted indexes) Planet Scale: Introducing TIN: full-text search for Postgres Cloudflare Workers Honeybadger Honeybadger is an application health monitoring tool built by developers for developers. Judoscale Make your deployments bulletproof with autoscaling that just works. Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you. Chris Oliver X/Twitter Andrew Mason X/Twitter Jason Charnes X/Twitter