#rails

Hi ruby.social 👋 I've been building Rails apps for 15+ years. I write RailsRevelry, which follows Rails behavior down into the framework. https://railsrevelry.substack.com/p/start-here #introduction #ruby #rails

"This is a man who is a white nationalist. And he is in sole control of #Rails, this framework we all love." https://davidcel.is/articles/rails-needs-new-governance

This morning in #Amiko, the community #RailsFork:

1. 138 people now in the Matrix space at https://matrix.to/#/#amiko:matrix.org

2. We've had success in running some major #Rails apps on experimental forked versions of both rails and railties, and at running our equivalent of rails new.

3. We're building community governance using Sociocracy: https://sociocracy30.org/

4. Work progresses on website, brand, and determining a non-placeholder name

This is happening, and we need YOU!

Some updates and stats for #Amiko (#Rails fork): ~650 boosts for the “this is happening” post. That’s *huge* numbers for the Fediverse, in my experience. 98 people in the matrix space as of right now. Should break 100 shortly. Code exploration has started, we’re working out how to do this. If you run a podcast or tech news blog, I’m happy to talk to you about all this, DM me. We need your help, *especially* if you’ve ever been involved in Rails internals. https://matrix.to/#/%23amiko:matrix.org

🤖 CVE-2026-66066 (CVSS 9.5): Critical flaw in Ruby on Rails Active Storage allows unauthenticated attackers to read arbitrary server files via crafted image uploads. Exposes secret_key_base, DB passwords, cloud credentials. 🔗 https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/critical-rails-flaw-could-let.html #CVE #Rails #CyberSec #WebSecurity #InfoSec

A couple years ago, I wanted to be able to explicitly define configuration on a #rails app, and have that provisioned from multiple possible sources (environment variables, or config file). That gave SmartConfig: https://codeberg.org/dmathieu/smart_config Fast forward to now, and the awesome benefit of having an explicitly defined config: auto-generating the doc for the #cookifed available configuration is straightforward. https://cookifed.dev/docs/self-host/config/

RE: https://mastodon.me.uk/@Floppy/116940067151749214 This is actually happening; we're building a community to execute a bigotry-free #Rails fork (29 people and increasing at time of writing). Come join us, we need your help and expertise. https://matrix.to/#/#amiko:matrix.org

How to Deal with 1,000 Failing Specs in a Rails App (2019) https://blog.planetargon.com/blog/entries/how-to-deal-with-1000-failing-specs-in-a-rails-app #Ruby #Rails #Testing

Rails is launching a "reference apps" page. There are hundreds of open-source #rails apps, but they only found 3 ... and they're all maintained by (racist) #DHH's company ... At this point, it's a cult. https://rubyonrails.org/docs/reference-apps

I've set up a Matrix space for anyone up for forking #Rails away from #DHH's influence. Let's start actively working on this. https://matrix.to/#/#forking-rails:matrix.org (If there's already a space for this, do let me know, I'll go there instead)

I am ashamed of the fact that I’m stuck on #Rails because of the sunk costs of what I’ve already built, as are *so many* other project like Mastodon. We cannot “just move”, the cost is enormous. The Rails core team seem utterly compromised and under his spell. Nobody will speak out. We need a hard #RailsFork. Now. And we need to coordinate to do it together and build a team. I’m in. Who else?

DHH has now gone even more full “send ‘em back where they came from” along with “stop trying to fix climate change” and “AI hypercapitalism yay” I cannot express enough, FUCK THIS WHITE NATIONALIST ARSEHOLE, and anyone not wanting to cut the #Ruby and #Rails communities ties with him should be *fucking ashamed of themselves*.

hi ruby.social 👋 i'm Razvan, rails dev based in barcelona. day job at Velory on rails 8 stuff. after hours i've been building EZLogs (ezlogs.io), a small gem that captures HTTP + Sidekiq + ActiveRecord into one plain-English card per user action. no AI in the path, just deterministic translation. got tired of being the person support pinged to "check what user X did yesterday". so i wrote the thing that translates. happy to be here. #introduction #ruby #rails