28 Sep 2026 05:00
Rails at Scale, Roundhouse Performance, and AI-Era Supply Chain Security
Andrew and Chris are back with a packed episode covering everything from Rails World anticipation and Rails 8.2 to security, Ractors, AI-assisted development, and some ambitious new Ruby tooling. They dig into RubyGems recent spam-publishing incident and Trusted Publishing, look at Shopify’s push toward Ractor-safe Rails, and explore Roundhouse, a project experimenting with compiling Rails applications into entirely different target languages. They also talk about using Claude for project planning and open source maintenance, new approaches to AI beyond traditional LLMs, the surprisingly inexpensive architecture behind Turbopuffer, PlanetScale’s new TIN search extension, and Andrew’s move from a small Sinatra deployment service to Cloudflare Workers. Hit download now!
Links
- Chris Oliver X
- Andrew Mason Bluesky
- David Hill LinkedIn
- Judoscale- Remote Ruby listener gift
- Automating Ruby Gem Releases with GitHub Actions (by Andrew Mason)
- Marc Benioff MOGGED Sam Altman (John Smith X Post)
- @graphtheory X Post
- Ractor-age Rails: A Hot-To Guide (Rails at Scale)
- Roundhouse
- Introducing System One Models & Jev (TypeSafe AI blog post)
- Turbopuffer
- Ben Dicken X post (on inverted indexes)
- Planet Scale: Introducing TIN: full-text search for Postgres
- Cloudflare Workers
