Rails World Tickets, New JavaScript Package Managers, and Security Worries

Chris, Andrew, and David kick things off with a detour through Dungeon Crawler Carl, Rails World tickets, and conference travel before diving into developer tooling, package manager security, and the latest Ruby ecosystem updates. The conversation covers everything from Hotwire-style UI patterns and pnpm/Corepack setup to Jeff Dickey’s new package manager, the RubyGems malicious package attack, Ruby 4.0.4, Shopify’s Rubydex, Claude/Codex chatter, and the increasingly strange future of AI agents and delivery robots. Hit download now to hear more! 

Links

• Judoscale- Remote Ruby listener gift
• Dungeon Crawler Carl 
• Dungeon Crawler Carl RPG + Unstoppable
• Maciej Mensfeld X
• Aube
• Jeff Dickey X
• en.dev
• The Hacker News- RubyGems Suspends New Signups After Hundreds of Malicious Packages Are Uploaded
• One engine, many tools—Introducing Rubydex (Rails at Scale)
• Ruby 4.0.4 Released
• Frontend Masters Workshop with Chris Oliver: Getting Started with Rails

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