Rails World Prep, Herb in Rails, Stacked PR Headaches and New Ruby Tooling

This week, Chris, Andrew, and David dig into a packed mix of Rails news, developer tooling, and the increasingly complicated role AI is playing in everyday coding. They talk about Herb making its way into Rails, the realities of Rails upgrades and stacked PRs, new approaches to Git hosting and object storage, and how Rails is being evaluated in the age of AI agents. They also get into improvements coming to Action Text, Podia’s approach to “flavored” Markdown, the never-ending frustrations of HTML email, and why tools like ArchSpec and Rubydex could become especially useful as more code is generated by LLMs. Hit download now to hear more! Links Chris Oliver X Andrew Mason Bluesky David Hill LinkedIn Judoscale- Remote Ruby listener gift Rails World-Sept 23-24, 2026, Austin, TX Add Herb as an HTML -aware ERB implementation #58552 (GitHub pull request) turbopuffer Agents on Rails: The LLM Benchmark Project (Rails Foundation) Agents on Rails : The First Benchmark Report Tiptap ArchSpec Rubydex 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