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Translating Rich Documents with AI using Ruby_LLM
LLMs are genuinely good at translation. Send a model a few paragraphs and you get a natural, fluent version back, it feels almost trivial. Trans...
Joao Gilberto Saraiva
August 25, 2026
Updated August 26, 2026
From Rails 5.2 to 7.2 in 4 Months: How JetRockets Unstuck Fera.ai's Production Platform
The situation Fera.ai has been running since 2017. By the time they reached out to JetRockets, their platform was on Ruby 2.7.6 and Rails 5.2 —...
Natalie Kaminski
August 02, 2026
Women in Tech: Why are only 10% of software engineers female?
What Percent of Software Engineers Are Female?Women make up 20.3 percent of software developers in the United States, according to the Bureau of...
Natalie Kaminski
February 06, 2023
Updated July 31, 2026
How to Scale Ruby on Rails: Architecture, Database, and Caching at Scale
Scaling Ruby on Rails means pulling a handful of architectural levers in the right order, and that order almost always starts with the database....
Igor Aleksandrov
July 15, 2026
Rodauth Rails Authentication: The 2026 Guide to Secure, Feature-Complete Auth
Rodauth is a full-featured authentication framework for Ruby, built on the Roda web toolkit and the Sequel database library, and you can use it ...
Igor Aleksandrov
July 09, 2026
We Rebuilt Our SDLC on GitHub So AI Agents Could Pick Up Tickets
Why we left Asana, how a GitHub Projects board became the control panel of our SDLC, and what GitHub wouldn't let us do along the way.
Islam Gagiev
July 06, 2026
Updated July 09, 2026
What is Vibe Coding? The 2026 Guide for Founders, Engineering Leaders, and Anyone Building With AI
One year after Andrej Karpathy coined the term on February 2, 2025, vibe coding has moved from a provocative tweet into a real conversation abou...
Natalie Kaminski
November 18, 2025
Updated July 03, 2026
Rails 5 to 6 Upgrade: 5 Gems That Broke Our App (And How We Fixed Them)
Why Rails 5 to 6 Upgrades Stall on Gems, Not on Rails When we ran this Rails 5 to 6 upgrade on a production app, we expected the hard part to be...
Rafael Peña-Azar
June 23, 2026
Hire a Ruby on Rails Developer in 2026: The Honest Guide to Senior Talent, Agencies, and Avoiding Bad Hires
The phrase "hire a Ruby on Rails developer" covers four very different hiring paths in 2026, and most teams pick the wrong one. This guide compa...
Alexey Solilin
June 16, 2026
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