Robby on Rails

Earlier this summer, I heard from Ojal Kulkarni, a local high school student who found Planet Argon through the Portland Startup Community Slack.

I was recently a guest on Scaling DevTools, hosted by the gracious Jack Bridger.

Every two years, the team at Planet Argon runs the Rails Developer Survey.

I recently joined ShopTalk Show… episode 711 to be exact.

You gave a handful of your devs access to Claude Code Max… and things moved fast.

Every design team I’ve worked with has had the same complaint about clients.

Over the past few months, a few of us at Planet Argon have been experimenting with Claude Code on real client Ruby on Rails projects.

I’ve been running a few experiments to streamline our development workflow, and I keep talking with folks on teams who haven’t been granted the budget or access to this kind of tooling yet.

One of my priorities this quarter was running a few AI pilot experiments.

The industry tends to celebrate beginnings.

I keep hearing the same story in conference hallway tracks.

Over the past few months, I’ve been begrudgingly coming around to something I didn’t expect to admit publicly: AI is getting legitimately useful at building software.

The Oh My Zsh core team recently met up in person at GitHub Universe in San Francisco.

The question Sheon Han poses — “Is Ruby a serious programming language?”

Every so often, someone in the Ruby community will ask, “So… what does Planet Argon actually do these days?”

We’ve spent the last decade optimizing for scale.

I’ve been thinking about what happens when open source organizations hit their breaking point… when funding dries up, relationships fracture, and everyone’s scrambling to make sense of what went wrong.

As the opening keynote on Day 2 of Rails World 2025, I had the chance to host a panel with three people who’ve been shaping the direction of both Ruby and Rails from deep within the internals.

I’ve been part of the Ruby on Rails ecosystem for over two decades.

Caching in Rails is like duct tape.

(or: How I’m Learning to Step Back So We Can Move Forward) Here’s a pattern I’ve been contributing to more than I’d like to admit: Someone on the team proposes a new internal tool.

If you didn’t make it to RailsConf this year…or couldn’t make it to my talk…I’ve got good news: the full video is now live. 🎥 Watch it here Preparing for this talk was one of the most nostalgic (and sometimes absurd) research dives I’ve done in years.

Ruby on Rails is often celebrated for how quickly it lets small teams build and ship web applications.

Today marks the launch of On Rails, a new podcast produced by the Rails Foundation and hosted by yours truly.

Drowning in technical debt?

As a consultant, I’ve looked over a shitload (how many?

A few months ago, I wrote an article on Medium about my experience of starting Oh My Zsh.

The 2016 Rails Hosting community survey results are in.

If you’ve not taken the 2016 Rails hosting survey, please do so at http://rails-hosting.com/

Tom Stuart posted up an excellent article on Automatic Differentiation in Ruby with links to his talk slides and video.

David was kind enough to put together a demonstration of how to take advantage of Action Cable in Rails 5.

Yesterday, I found out that Ezra Zygmuntowicz had passed away.

Attention all Ruby on Rails Developers… you have six days to complete the 2014 Rails Hosting Survey.

Recently, I found reading an article by Paul Venezia titled, Fatal abstraction: A bottom-up view of high-level languages, where—if you read between the lines—you can see that Paul just found himself waking up from a coma and it’s no longer 2004.

Hello!

It was a long time coming… but we finally got a web page designed and deployed for Oh My Zsh.

Over on the Planet Argon blog, you can read an enlightening interview with two of our Jr.

We’re all excited about the prospect of a new code editor (Atom Editor).

funny how Twitter warned me that a bunch of my friends at GitHub are all a sudden interested in https://t.co/cb52btuPZe — Matt Aimonetti (@mattetti) February 26, 2014 …which leads us to Initial sources suggest that will be one of the biggest app releases…

It’s been an odd day.

We’ve had a number of clients in New York over the years.

Earlier today, I noticed that we now have over 500 developers from around the globe who I have accepted pull-requests from[^1^](#fn1){#fnref1 .footnote-ref role=”doc-noteref”}.

Recently, I found myself re-installing everything from Homebrew and began to notice that MySQL was consuming nearly half a gig of memory.

Hey all, It’s been a while (most of my blogging is over on the Planet Argon blog..). but I’m hoping to have some technical-related posts coming in the near future.

A few months ago we invited the Ruby on Rails community to participate in our hosting survey.

It’s been several years since I released GoogleAnalyticsProxy, which allows our team to test their GA event/click/view tracking during the development phases of our project.

You can follow along with some of my writing at the following sites: Planet Argon on Facebook Planet Argon on twitter Planet Argon blog

Just a short and sweet little tip.

You might recall that back in 2009, we surveyed the Ruby on Rails community to gauge how people were deploying and hosting their applications.

Our team at Planet Argon just released a white paper on this topic.