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Robby Russell @robbyonrails.com · 5h

Was great to sponsor and attend @xoruby.com today in Portland. thanks Jim!

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Robby Russell @robbyonrails.com · 1d

🧅

Robby Russell reading a paper copy of The Onion

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XO Ruby @xoruby.com · 1d

XO Ruby Portland is tomorrow! 🥳🥳 Will we see you there? It's not too late to grab your ticket!

🏙️ Oct. 10/11, 9am - 5pm
🎟️ Grab your ticket for $100: www.xoruby.com/event/portland/

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Robby Russell @robbyonrails.com · 1d

A moment to appreciate the work we do for each other. 💎

I want to thank Tan Le (tancnle) for their work on the rouge gem, which a lot of us rely on for syntax highlighting.

github.com/rouge-ruby/r...

rubygems.org/gems/rouge

Who would you like to thank?

Contributors to rouge-ruby/rouge

A pure Ruby code highlighter that is compatible with Pygments - Contributors to rouge-ruby/rouge

github.com

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Robby Russell @robbyonrails.com · 1d

I think those are called sofas

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Robby Russell @robbyonrails.com · 2d

Ruby Central’s made some tough… and yeah, rough… calls lately.
I still think they deserve a second act.

robbyonrails.com/articles/202...

Organizations, Like Code, Deserve Refactoring | Robby on Rails

I’ve been thinking about what happens when open source organizations hit their breaking point… when funding dries up, relationships fracture, and everyone’s ...

robbyonrails.com

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Robby Russell @robbyonrails.com · 2d

Proud to be a Portlander!

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d

This is the genius of the Portland protests - they make the claims of lawlessness look not just wrong, but comical

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 2d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Robby Russell @robbyonrails.com · 2d

I want my two dollars... worth of brain cells back from following this story.

Better Off Dead meme: Character on ski slope asking about the street value of gem download logs (parody of the 'pure snow' scene)

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Robby Russell @robbyonrails.com · 4d

Who is heading to GitHub Universe later this month in SF?

I'll be there helping represent @ohmyz.sh in the open source fun time zone, or whatever they're calling it this year. 🙃

Also, who needs a hat?

shop.planetargon.com/collections/...

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Jean Boussier @byroot.bsky.social · 4d

This is by far the most sensible take ever since all this mess started.

Glad there are still some people capable making the difference between unsubstantiated conspiracy theories and proper reporting of facts.

Thank you ❤️

Code and the Coding Coders who Code it @codingcoders.bsky.social · 4d

🎙️ New (Bonus) Episode of Code and the Coding Coders who Code it, with @andrewm.codes and @chaelcodes.bsky.social

podcast.drbragg.dev/episodes/rub...

#ruby #Rails #code #coding #coders #podcast #rubycentral #bundler #rubygems

Ruby’s Trustquake

We talk about Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, and everything in between. From tiny tips to bigger challenges we take on 3 questions a show; What are you working on? What's blocking you? What's something cool...

podcast.drbragg.dev

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Robby Russell @robbyonrails.com · 4d

Pitch a guest for @maintainable.fm. Go!

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Robby Russell @robbyonrails.com · 4d

Maybe I should have Jim on @maintainable.fm

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Robby Russell @robbyonrails.com · 5d

So they hit pause, revisited the basics, and started stripping away what wasn’t helping.

This is a case study in technical maturity. A story of how slowing down just enough can help a fast-moving team go further. Worth sharing with your coworkers.

Robby Russell @robbyonrails.com · 5d

Florent's team at Doctolib realized their test suite wasn’t just slowing down developers...it was draining focus, momentum, and budget.

The root cause? Decisions that quietly piled up over time. Too many factories. Skipped Rails defaults. A bloated CI setup.

Robby Russell @robbyonrails.com · 5d

Delighted to share this deep dive into how Doctolib's team has been speeding up their test suite...when they have 10 databases, 84k tests, with over 3M LOC.

onrails.buzzsprout.com/2462975/epis...

Florent Beaurain: Optimizing Rails Tests at Doctolib Scale - On Rails

In this episode of On Rails, Robby is joined by Florent Beaurain, a longtime Rails engineer at Doctolib, home to one of the largest Rails monoliths in Europe with over 3 million lines of code and 400+...

onrails.buzzsprout.com

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Robby Russell @robbyonrails.com · 5d

Also over on Youtube

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMO3...

Florent Beaurain: Optimizing Rails Tests at Doctolib Scale

YouTube video by Ruby on Rails

www.youtube.com

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Robby Russell @robbyonrails.com · 5d

Delighted to share this deep dive into how Doctolib's team has been speeding up their test suite...when they have 10 databases, 84k tests, with over 3M LOC.

onrails.buzzsprout.com/2462975/epis...

Florent Beaurain: Optimizing Rails Tests at Doctolib Scale - On Rails

In this episode of On Rails, Robby is joined by Florent Beaurain, a longtime Rails engineer at Doctolib, home to one of the largest Rails monoliths in Europe with over 3 million lines of code and 400+...

onrails.buzzsprout.com

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Robby Russell @robbyonrails.com · 13d

Building a new ShrimpTracker

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Robby Russell @robbyonrails.com · 13d

Somewhere around the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. Haven't found photos from the exact spot, but over in this area

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Robby Russell @robbyonrails.com · 13d

Saw One Battle After Another in 70mm yesterday. This is the kind of film to see in a packed theatre full of strangers.

Worth the hype.

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Robby Russell @robbyonrails.com · 14d

I was literally just looking up where that was shot and searching for road photos…like two minutes ago

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Robby Russell @robbyonrails.com · 14d

Did you catch it in 70mm today too?

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Robby Russell @robbyonrails.com · 15d

CAPTION CONTEST

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Robby Russell @robbyonrails.com · 16d

Find someone who looks at you the way @byroot.bsky.social looks at @tenderlove.dev when he starts talking about ZJIT. #railsworld

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Robby Russell @robbyonrails.com · 16d

When I shared that Joe had passed, it wasn’t to excuse harm or reshape his legacy. He caused harm, and the way things ended (rightfully) was complicated.

I just felt people who shared space with him deserved to know. That felt human to me.

Not everyone will agree. I’m okay with that.

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Joshua Wood @joshuawood.net · 17d

In happy Ruby news, I am _so_ excited for @xoruby.com in Portland on October 11. Look at that lineup, it's like a Ruby reunion. (But don't be intimated if you're new, we're friendly!)

And there are still tickets available. 👀

www.xoruby.com/event/portla...

Portland

Green. Creative. Weird.

www.xoruby.com

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