Articles by robbyrussell
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Your codebase doesn't care how it got written (robbyonrails.com)

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Rails at the Center of DNSimple (rubyonrails.org)

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8,400 GitHub repos share a naming convention that traces back to South Park joke (github.com/search)

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Claude Code for the Semi-Reluctant, Somewhat Curious Rails Developer (robbyonrails.com)

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Building a RAG Tool in Ruby 4 (robbyonrails.com)

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Most Developers Don't Build New Things (robbyonrails.com)

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I Didn't Want AI to Be Good at This (robbyonrails.com)

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The Cost of Leaving a Software Rewrite "On the Table" (planetargon.com)

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On Rails Podcast: How Testing Platform Rainforest QA Tests Itself [video] (youtube.com)

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Response to "Ruby Is Not a Serious Programming Language" (robbyonrails.com)

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Nathan Ladd: Relentless Improvement and the Cost of Neglect (maintainable.fm)

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Architecture for Contraction (robbyonrails.com)

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Optimizing Rails Tests at Doctolib Scale – On Rails (buzzsprout.com)

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Talking Shop with Ruby and Rails Maintainers at Rails World 2025 (robbyonrails.com)

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Seven stages teams go through with their software tech stack (robbyonrails.com)

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When Your Cache Has a Bigger Carbon Footprint Than Your Users (robbyonrails.com)

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Taylor Otwell: What 14 Years of Laravel Taught Me About Maintainability (maintainable.fm)

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The Internal Tooling Maturity Ladder (robbyonrails.com)

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Doximity's 15-Year Rails Monolith (buzzsprout.com)

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Scaling Rails for Users as a Solo Dev (buzzsprout.com)

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Stop Pretending You're the Last Developer (robbyonrails.com)

2

On Rails: A New Podcast from the Rails Foundation (rubyonrails.org)

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Prepare to tack: Steering Rails apps out of technical debt [video] (youtube.com)

2

Stimulus has dethroned React (in the Rails community) (twitter.com/robbyrussell)

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2024 Ruby on Rails Community Survey Results (railsdeveloper.com)

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How do you pronounce Oh My Zsh? (youtube.com)

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Carlos Blé – Código Sostenible on Maintainable.fm (maintainable.fm)

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Maintainable Software Podcast: Lena Reinhard – How Will People Get Stuff Done? (maintainable.fm)

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How to Decommission Your Ruby on Rails Application (planetargon.com)