Happy Wednesday! Here is issue #134 of our newsletter, which offers news and the best tools for your current or future Rails projects... 1. 🤖 Curious how AI is reshaping higher education? OmbuLabs is sharing key insights from NERCOMP 2025, highlighting trends, challenges, and opportunities at the intersection of AI and academia. ➡️ In Part 1 of this series, Ernesto discusses 3 case studies presented by Gerol Petruzella and Trevor Murphy that leveraged AI to solve real scenarios at Williams College. They showcased three privacy-first, cloud-free AI tools to support teaching, accessibility, and student experimentation, proving you don’t need third-party services to build powerful solutions or risk exposing copyrighted content. 2. 🚨 Rails Versions 7.1.5.2, 7.2.2.2, and 8.0.2.1 Security Patches have been released. Rails Maintenance Policy Reminders: Support for 7.1.x will end on October 1, 2025. ✔️ Make a plan! Upgrade with trusted partners like Bonsai by FastRuby or tackle it yourself with our helpful upgrade tools and guides. 3.⚡Can Ruby really be made faster than Ruby? Sharon at NoteFlakes shares the journey of pushing performance limits in Ruby template generation, challenging assumptions, and showing what’s possible when you rethink the basics. 4. 🎨 Redesigning your Rails app? Victor Cobos shows you how to use Rails :variants to effortlessly run old and new designs side by side! Perfect for seamless testing and gradual rollouts without the hassle. 🔥 Outdated Apps Are a Risk. Bonsai Keeps You Compliant. Security patches, version upgrades, & monthly reports — Fixed-cost maintenance plans geared to reduce your risk. 🧯 5. 🤝 What if connecting with fellow Rubyists was as easy as opening an app? In this Ruby Central post, Inspired By RailsConf: The Ruby Friends App, Joe Masilotti shares more about creating the app and future ideas he has for the community to stay connected beyond the conference. 📚 Check out his book: Hotwire Native for Rails Developers: Build Native Mobile Apps Using Your Server. Learn how you can build an app using your Rails skills. 6. 😎 Vibe coding is quickly becoming a buzzword in the Ruby & Rails community. By blending human intuition with the assistance of AI tools, developers are exploring new ways to write code with greater flow, creativity, and speed. But there are pitfalls too... Two articles take a closer look: the first, by Rahoul Baruah, experiments with Vibe Coding using Claude Code, and another by Dui Toledo discussing whether Vibe Coding could be the “new Rails.” Check them out! 7. Reminders & Event Stuff:
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