Happy Wednesday! Here is issue #132 of our newsletter, which offers news and the best tools for your current or future Rails projects... 1. 🤖 Dive into the world of AI Agents: Implementing the ReAct Pattern in Ruby! In this article, Amanda shares how to build a blog-writing AI Agent by combining reasoning and acting, just like humans do. See how we used Anthropic Ruby SDK, Tavily, and Serper.dev and supercharge your own projects with Ruby & AI. 🚀 2. 🎥 Missed RailsConf 2025 or want to catch a talk you didn’t attend? The full playlist is now live on RubyEvents.org and Ruby Central's YouTube. From AI workflows to performance deep dives, explore the sessions that inspired the Rails community this year—anytime, anywhere. 3. 🧩 Tired of complex method arguments? The article Ruby’s Options Pattern: A Flexible Design Strategy, examines the Options Pattern in Ruby and how it can simplify code while maintaining flexibility and clarity. Make your apps highly configurable using Structs, Dependency Injection, and advanced techniques like loaders and environment variables. Plus, explore gems like Etcher, Containable, and Infusible to enhance your configuration game. 🚀 ​Whether it's hands-on or hands-off, FastRuby.io has a hand in making upgrades ​​simple & accessible. ​​Check out this collection of free open-source tools maintained by FastRuby​, designed to help you perform Ruby on Rails upgrades yourself. Don’t want to go at it alone? Whether you're looking for a gradual, cost-effective approach with Bonsai or an all 🙌 on deck, full-steam-ahead solution with our custom ​Upgrade Services, we​ have you covered. 4. 📊 Announcing Ruby Gem Analytics, powered by ClickHouse and Ruby Central, this Ruby gem brings you lightning-fast analytics. This allows the Ruby community to do Gem analytics on all downloads since 2017 (over 180 billion rows) using SQL. If you’re working with large datasets and want real-time insights, this one’s worth a look. 5. 🤖 Curious to learn more about AI agents and how they work? Check out What Even Is Active Agent? (With Real-World Demo) with Adrian Marin of AvoHQ as he breaks it down with a real use case—no hype, just substance. 6. 🇦🇹 RubyConf AT is back! Check out the official site for updates, tickets, and speaker announcements for Austria’s Ruby community event of the year. 👀 Check out our other articles on: ​​Performance​​ | ​Upgrades​​​ | ​​​Best Practices​​​ | ​​​Tech Debt​​​ Bookmark them, share them, or save them for later. We hope you found these links helpful.😉 Know anyone who would love to receive this newsletter? Tell them to ​​​subscribe to the Rails Upgrade News newsletter​​​​​… Best, The ​​​​​FastRuby.io​​​​​ Team |
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