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  1. Rails World 2026 draws 1,000+ developers from 58 countries, and every talk is already online

    The first Rails World in the US was also the largest yet, with two days of talks in Austin plus the Rails at Scale Summit.

    Ruby on Rails

  2. Clio buys Learned Hand and moves into AI for judges and courts

    Learned Hand builds an AI workspace for judges and clerks that connects to court case management systems and drafts bench memos and orders.

    PR Newswire

  3. Apollo.io ships an AI go-to-market system as MCP usage grows 4x

    Apollo launched three products at once: Builder Studio for natural-language workflows, an Intelligence Layer that gives agents company context, and Messaging OS for signal-based campaigns with a Bulk Send API.

    Apollo.io

  4. Whop's Economic Intelligence tells sellers what to do next, then does it

    The new layer reads Whop's data across business verticals, recommends actions like pricing changes, ad campaigns and retention offers, and runs them when the owner accepts.

    Whop

  5. Shopify opens checkout to AI agents on every eligible store

    Agents running in a buyer's browser can now read, fill and submit Shopify checkouts through three WebMCP tools (get_checkout, update_checkout, complete_checkout), including Shop Pay, once the buyer approves.

    TechCrunch

  6. Rocky Mountain Ruby 2026 brings 24 talks to Boulder, six of them on AI

    The two-day conference ran September 28-29 with Drew Bragg on building an AI agent in about 400 lines of Ruby, Giovanni Panasiti on agentic RAG with RubyLLM, and Andrea Fomera on onboarding into a Rails codebase with AI agents.

    RubyEvents

  7. Lexxy 1.0: 37signals' rich text editor for Action Text is stable

    Lexxy is built on Meta's Lexical and writes the same HTML Action Text expects, with real paragraph tags, Markdown shortcuts, code highlighting and mentions.

    GitHub

  8. Herb becomes the default ERB compiler in Rails 8.2

    New apps, and apps on config.load_defaults 8.2, now compile HTML templates through Herb, with Erubi kept for every other format.

    Ruby on Rails

  9. DHH opens Rails World: convention over configuration is built for the agent era

    The opening keynote, livestreamed for the first time with Shopify's support, argued that Rails conventions make agent-written code cheaper in tokens and faster to review.

    YouTube

    Reactions: Andy Croll, “Look at all the things he's not doing” · Matt Solt, Ruby AI News, “The Future of Rails” · Dewayne VanHoozer, “Pencils Down: My Take on DHH's Rails World 2026 Keynote”

  10. Agents on Rails Stage 2: the best model ships 53% of Rails features at max effort

    Stage 2 gives models 20 feature tickets against 37signals' Fizzy, written the way a product person would, and grades them with hidden checks.

    Ruby on Rails

  11. RubyLLM 2.0: seventeen providers, and agents that wait for human approval

    Carmine Paolino released 2.0 the same week he presented it at EuRuKo.

    GitHub

  12. EuRuKo 2026 in Brno: Matz finds Ruby the cheapest language for coding agents

    Europe's yearly Ruby conference ran September 16-18 in Brno, Czechia, with keynotes from Matz and Koichi Sasada.

    Wolfgang Ziegler

  13. Thatch raises $108M Series C and becomes a $1B company

    The Rails-built health benefits platform raised from The General Partnership, Index Ventures, General Catalyst and Andreessen Horowitz, with Eli Lilly, ADP Ventures and Paychex as strategic investors.

    Thatch

  14. Salesforce closes its acquisition of Fin, formerly Intercom

    The roughly $3.6B deal announced in June is now complete, and Fin joins Salesforce AI Labs.

    Salesforce

  15. PlanetScale opens Neki, sharded Postgres, in preview

    Neki spreads one Postgres database across many machines, with real Postgres and a primary plus two replicas on every shard, and reshards online.

    PlanetScale

  16. Omada Health targets 20%+ yearly growth and a 30% EBITDA margin

    At its first investor day, Omada set long-term targets of at least 20% annual revenue growth, 80% non-GAAP gross margin and 30% adjusted EBITDA margin.

    GlobeNewswire

  17. Procore closes its $845M purchase of DroneDeploy

    Procore paid about $845M in cash for the drone and reality capture platform, which now runs as a wholly owned subsidiary.

    SEC

  18. RubyGems 4.1 beta: PubGrub resolver, post-quantum gem signing, content-addressable gems

    The first 4.1 beta replaces the Molinillo dependency resolver with PubGrub and adds ML-DSA signatures for gems.

    RubyGems Blog

  19. Instacart launches Clementine, an AI agent that turns a message into a grocery cart

    Clementine builds a cart from a request like "high-protein easy dinners for two", a recipe, or a photo of a handwritten list.

    TechCrunch

  20. Chime buys its partner bank Stride for $590M and raises guidance

    Stride, Chime's bank partner for more than seven years, becomes Chime Bank, N.A. once regulators approve, expected in the first half of 2027.

    SEC

  21. Claude Fable 5.1 ties for the top score on the Rails agent benchmark, at 40% less cost

    The second Agents on Rails leaderboard puts Fable 5.1 at 58 of 63 runs (92%), matching Claude Opus 5's accuracy for a bill about 40% lower and a 5.4-minute median run.

    Ruby on Rails

  22. Ascend on why its insurance payments platform is still a Rails monolith five years in

    Eddie Galindo and Kagen Hearn take the On Rails podcast through rate limiting for enterprise customers: finding the real limits of their data ingestion pipeline, choosing feature flags over database configuration, and adding AI tooling to financial software.

    On Rails

  23. Two resolv CVEs land in every current Ruby: patch to 0.7.2

    CVE-2026-80212 lets malicious DNS responses drive unbounded memory growth until the process dies.

    ruby-lang.org

  24. Rails open-sources lemans, the Ruby harness it uses to benchmark AI agents

    Vladimir Dementyev, Svyatoslav Kryukov and Artur Petrov built lemans with support from the Rails Foundation, replacing the Python tooling the team had been using with a Rails-native one.

    Ruby on Rails

  25. Sixfold's Joanna Wang: code got cheap, developers did not

    Wang, a senior engineer at Sixfold, builds AI underwriting tools that collect data and assess risk for insurance companies on Rails.

    On Rails

  26. Rails benchmarks eight AI models and finds that knowing Rails, not raw reasoning, separates them

    Svyatoslav Kryukov and Artur Petrov ran eight models against 21 atomic Rails tasks, three runs each, 504 runs total, drawn from real Writebook scenarios covering fixes, security, performance and features.

    Ruby on Rails

  27. Matz joins DHH on stage at Rails World 2026 in Austin

    Rails World returns September 23-24 at the Palmer Event Center, and Ruby's creator sits down with DHH on day two for a fireside chat on Ruby, Rails, AI, and where programming goes next.

    Ruby on Rails

  28. Airbnb's AI assistant now resolves 45% of issues as net income hits $816M

    Airbnb, famously built on Rails, grew Q2 2026 revenue 17% to $3.6B and net income to $816M (from $642M), while its AI assistant now resolves nearly 45% of support issues without a human, cutting support cost per booking about 16% year over year.

    Airbnb

  29. Block's Q2 profit jumps as AI lifts code changes per engineer 150%

    Block (Square, Cash App), a longtime Ruby shop, grew Q2 2026 gross profit 25% to $3.17B and adjusted EPS 65% to $1.02, and raised full-year guidance to $12.51B.

    Yahoo Finance

  30. Shopify posts 34% revenue growth and tops $115B GMV in Q2

    Shopify's Rails-powered commerce platform grew Q2 2026 revenue 34% to $3.58B, with GMV up 32% to $115.6B and free cash flow of $654M — 30%-plus growth across GMV, revenue, gross profit, and free cash flow at once.

    Shopify

  31. Chime posts a second straight GAAP profit and launches commission-free investing

    Chime's Ruby/Rails neobank grew Q2 2026 revenue 27% to $670M with $28M in GAAP net income — its second consecutive profitable quarter — and 10.4M active members (up 20%).

    Chime

  32. RuboCop 1.89 sees your whole codebase with Rubydex

    RuboCop historically linted one file at a time; the new opt-in Rubydex index lets 1.89 reason across an entire project, catching duplicate methods and typo'd constants and method names across files, plus lazy-loaded cops for faster startup.

    metaredux

  33. Hinge Health turns profitable as revenue jumps 53% to $213M

    Rails/Ruby-backed Hinge Health posted Q2 2026 revenue of $212.8M (up 53%) and swung to a GAAP profit, raising full-year guidance to about $858M and announcing a $105M acquisition of Cylinder Health.

    Hinge Health

  34. Aurora Solar launches a marketplace to compare installers privately

    Aurora Solar, the Rails-built solar-design platform, launched the Aurora Solar Marketplace, where homeowners get personalized solar-and-storage estimates and compare local installers side by side without handing over a phone number upfront.

    Business Wire

  35. Humid 1.0 does React server-side rendering in Rails, no Node needed

    thoughtbot released Humid 1.0, under 200 lines of helpers that render React on the server via mini_racer's embedded V8, skipping a separate Node process — letting Rails own the JavaScript server-rendering story on its own terms.

    thoughtbot

  36. Solid Queue 1.6 adds fiber workers, ideal for LLM-heavy background jobs

    Rails' database-backed job backend gained fiber-based execution — hundreds of concurrent fibers on one reactor thread instead of thread pools — explicitly aimed at I/O-bound work like LLM API calls.

    GitHub

  37. Rails-built Procore buys DroneDeploy for $845M to add AI reality capture

    Procore, the publicly traded construction-management platform built on Ruby on Rails, agreed to acquire reality-capture and robotics company DroneDeploy for about $845 million in cash, pairing aerial and ground jobsite capture with Procore AI.

    Construction Dive

  38. Chatwoot's Captain AI agent gains FAQ generation and an impact dashboard

    Chatwoot, the open-source Rails alternative to Intercom and Zendesk, upgraded its Captain AI agent to auto-generate FAQs from resolved conversations, added an assistant-overview dashboard (volume handled, resolution rate, time saved), and now shows which articles informed each reply.

    Chatwoot

  39. Doximity buys Pathway Medical for $63M to ground its clinical AI

    Rails-based physician network Doximity acquired clinical-reference company Pathway Medical for $63 million ($26M cash plus $37M equity), feeding vetted guidelines, drug data, and trial results into its Clinical AI Suite.

    Fierce Healthcare

  40. Procore turns its first GAAP profit and ships embedded AI agents

    Procore's Rails-built construction platform hit its first-ever GAAP operating profit on Q2 revenue of $375M (up 16%), with free cash flow up 507% year over year, while launching a new suite of embedded AI agents powered by Datagrid intelligence.

    Procore

  41. GitHub Copilot passes 50M users; one in three PRs now involves an agent

    GitHub — a Ruby on Rails application — is Microsoft's clearest AI-era win: on the FY26 Q4 earnings call, CEO Satya Nadella said Copilot crossed 50 million users (about 30 million paid seats), and one in three pull requests on GitHub now involves an agent, atop Microsoft's record $90B quarter.

    CNBC

  42. AppSignal ships a hosted MCP server, piping Rails errors into your AI editor

    AppSignal launched a public, hosted Model Context Protocol endpoint — no Docker, OAuth built in — that exposes errors, performance traces, logs, anomalies, metrics, and dashboards to Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code Copilot, Zed, and Windsurf, so an agent can investigate a production Rails issue without leaving the editor.

    AppSignal

  43. Rootly acquires ThinkHive to make incident-response AI agents reliable

    Rootly, the Rails-built AI incident-management platform, acquired ThinkHive, which traces AI-agent behavior and correlates metrics, traces, and evals to catch hallucination and drift in production.

    Rootly

  44. Coinbase lets businesses accept payments from AI agents via x402

    Coinbase Business rolled out a payments stack built on the open x402 protocol that lets software agents pay merchants in USDC with no human checkout; developers can add x402 acceptance to any API, MCP server, or web service in three lines of code.

    CoinDesk

  45. AngelList Link lets GPs query their fund from Claude, ChatGPT, and Codex

    AngelList introduced Link, an MCP-based agentic layer giving general partners conversational, read-only access to financials, documents, capital calls, and distributions from Claude, ChatGPT, and Codex.

    Crowdfund Insider

  46. Clio Work launches in Canada with agentic legal AI grounded in 470K cases

    Clio launched Clio Work in Canada, an agentic legal AI that plans and executes multi-step tasks — fact extraction, source-linked research, strategy evaluation, drafting — grounded in more than 470,000 Canadian cases across 40-plus courts.

    Clio

  47. SF Ruby met at Sentry for a night of VMs, background jobs, and ERB internals

    The July SF Ruby meetup at Sentry ran a new format — fewer talks, more connecting, with a full round of stage intros — featuring Cameron Dutro (Cisco Meraki) on garnet-js and the YARV virtual machine, Alexander Baygeldin (Evil Martians) on fair background-job orchestration, and Marco Roth on the anatomy of an ERB rendering engine.

    SF Ruby

  48. Fleetio's AI helped fleets reject $41.6M in unnecessary repairs in H1

    Fleetio, the Rails-built fleet-maintenance platform, reported customers rejected $41.6M in unnecessary repair-order line items in the first half of 2026 (up 112% year over year), with AI applied across $1.05B in asset assessments and 57% of enterprise fleets adopting its AI Service Advisor.

    GlobeNewswire

  49. Whop's new CLI hands full API access to owners and their AI agents

    Whop released a command-line interface that exposes its full platform API as plain-language commands, so a business owner — or their AI agent — can spin up a live product with a shareable checkout link just by chatting.

    SiliconANGLE

  50. Insta brings self-updating snapshot testing to Ruby

    Marco Roth, creator of Herb, launched Insta, a snapshot-testing gem with inline snapshots rewritten via Prism, structural diffs, an interactive review CLI, and Minitest and RSpec support.

    marcoroth.dev

  51. Instacart brings same-day delivery to 2,400+ Tractor Supply stores

    Instacart, whose backend runs on Rails, partnered with Tractor Supply to deliver pet food, livestock feed, and farm and garden goods same-day from more than 2,400 stores — as fast as an hour, with no markups — extending its reach into rural markets.

    Instacart

  52. RubyConf 2026 lands in Las Vegas with a wave of agent-native talks

    Ruby Central's flagship conference (64 talks at Red Rock Casino, moved up from its usual November slot) ran keynotes from Matz, Dave Thomas, Obie Fernandez, Jessica Kerr, Richard Schneeman, and Jeremy Evans, with a heavy agent-native thread: "Convention over Hallucination: Harness Engineering for AI-Powered Rails," "Defying Gravity: Teaching AI to Write Better Ruby," and "Ractors in Ruby 4.0: Message Passing Without the Pain."

    rubyevents.org

  53. Matz opens RubyConf 2026 with "Extreme Vibe Coding"

    Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto keynoted RubyConf 2026 with "Extreme Vibe Coding," walking through his AI-assisted workflow — including using Claude to mass-review and auto-merge pull requests on Ruby itself.

    Ruby Weekly

  54. Talkable launches an MCP for safe AI agents in referral programs

    Talkable, the bootstrapped Rails-built referral-and-loyalty platform, ships a Model Context Protocol server that lets AI agents run referral campaigns with guardrails.

    Talkable

  55. VergeSense brings AI predictive planning to Microsoft Places

    VergeSense, the Rails-and-Sidekiq workplace-occupancy platform, brings its AI-powered Predictive Planning to Microsoft Places customers, forecasting office demand from real sensor data.

    Business Wire

  56. Lime goes public on Nasdaq, ending a decade as a private company

    The San Francisco micromobility company, whose scooters and e-bikes run on a Ruby on Rails backend, raised about $167M in its IPO: 6.68M shares at $25, a roughly $1.66B valuation, trading under the ticker LIME.

    TechCrunch

  57. Hanami 3.0 ships "in full bloom" as Hanami, dry-rb, and rom.rb unite under Hanakai

    The leading full-featured Ruby web framework outside Rails reaches 3.0 with built-in mailers, i18n, and Minitest support, plus ~3.7x HTTP throughput and 14x fewer allocations per request.

    Hanakai

  58. Brighton Ruby returns June 25 — 11 talks in one day

    The long-running single-day UK conference returns with 11 talks: Rachael Wright-Munn's 'Your First Open-Source Contribution,' David Paluy's 'LLM Telemetry as a First-Class Rails Concern,' and Brooke Kuhlmann's Hanami + htmx app for e-ink devices.

    Brighton Ruby

  59. HackerOne joins OpenAI's Patch the Planet for open-source security

    HackerOne, the Rails-built security platform, signs on as a launch partner for OpenAI's Patch the Planet, an effort to find and fix vulnerabilities across widely used open-source software.

    HackerOne

  60. Lime sets a single-day ridership record in Seattle during the World Cup

    Weeks before its Nasdaq IPO, the Rails-backed micromobility company logged 83,000 trips in a single day in Seattle during a USA World Cup match, a company record for the city.

    GeekWire

  61. SF Ruby Meetup, June @ PlanetScale — Jeremy Evans on Implementing Core Set

    Thursday June 18, 5pm, 108 Natoma St. Jeremy Evans on 'Implementing Core Set,' Alan Ridlehoover's 'Indispensable: What Human Computers Can Teach Human Programmers,' plus a PlanetScale talk and interest circles.

    Luma

  62. Nonprofits surpass $4 billion raised through Donorbox

    Donorbox, the bootstrapped and profitable Rails-built fundraising platform, crosses $4 billion in total donations processed for nonprofits worldwide.

    Business Wire

  63. Salesforce to acquire Fin (formerly Intercom) for ~$3.6B, a landmark Rails exit

    Salesforce signed a definitive agreement to buy Fin — the AI customer-service company known as Intercom until its May rebrand — for roughly $3.6 billion, its largest AI-agent acquisition to date.

    Salesforce

  64. Pipefy turns AI conversations into executable workflows

    Pipefy, the Rails-built no-code process-automation platform (San Francisco, via Curitiba), launches a tool that converts natural-language AI conversations into running business workflows.

    GlobeNewswire

  65. Blastoff Rails 2026 in Albuquerque — June 11-12, Irina Nazarova + Kieran Klaassen keynote

    Yearly U.S. Rails conference returns to Albuquerque, NM (June 11-12).

    Blastoff Rails

  66. Stitch Fix revenue rises to $340M in Q3, guidance raised

    Stitch Fix, whose personalization platform runs on a Ruby polyglot stack, reports third-quarter FY2026 revenue up 4.7% to $340M and raises its full-year EBITDA guidance, a fifth straight growth quarter.

    SEC

  67. Clio acquires Jurisage to power its Canadian legal-AI launch

    The Rails-built legal-practice platform (a $5B business) buys Canadian legal-AI company Jurisage, whose dataset spans 470,000+ Canadian cases across 40+ courts and includes the CiteRight drafting tool.

    Clio

  68. Ruby Central stands up Security Engineers in Residence for the gem ecosystem

    Backed by an Alpha-Omega grant, Ruby Central launches a team that finds, verifies, and reports real vulnerabilities in widely-used gems, prioritizing human review over raw AI signals.

    Ruby Central

  69. Apartment List launches Kaleno and Sunny, its AI apartment-search platforms

    Apartment List, the Rails-built rental marketplace, launches two AI-powered platforms, Kaleno and Sunny, to automate apartment hunting for renters.

    Business Wire

  70. Fresh Ruby roles on the SF Ruby jobs board — every listing re-verified

    The sfruby.com jobs board got its monthly audit: every listing content-checked against live career pages.

    SF Ruby

  71. Ontra ships an MCP server, piping private-markets data into Claude and ChatGPT

    Ontra, the Rails-built contract-automation platform for asset managers, launches a Model Context Protocol server so AI assistants like Claude and ChatGPT can query fund and legal data directly.

    Ontra

  72. Factorial raises $150M Series D at $2.5B valuation — one of Europe's most valuable AI scale-ups, built on Rails

    Barcelona-based HR platform Factorial (Rails backend, 200+ product engineers) closes a $150M Series D led by General Catalyst, with up to an additional $540M committed through GC's Customer Value Fund — more than $700M in total.

    PR Newswire

  73. GitLab Q1 FY2027: $264M revenue (+23%), 'agentic era is creating structural tailwinds'

    Rails Foundation Core member reports Q1 FY2027 revenue of $264.2M (+23% YoY), 14% non-GAAP operating margin, $149.2M operating cash flow, and 117% net retention.

    Business Wire

  74. Natural builds payment infrastructure for AI agents on Ruby on Rails

    The SF startup building agentic payments (wallets, pay, request, and credit across banking and stablecoins) runs Ruby on Rails under the hood.

    Natural

  75. RubyConf Austria 2026 in Vienna — Dave Thomas and Chad Fowler keynote

    22 talks over three days (May 29-31). Dave Thomas opens with 'Start Writing Ruby'; Chad Fowler answers with 'This is What We've Been Training For.' One panel seats Fowler, José Valim, Obie Fernandez, and Armin Ronacher.

    RubyConf Austria

  76. Toptal acquires Adeva

    The Rails-built talent network absorbs Adeva, a global IT talent network of vetted developers, architects, and tech professionals.

    PR Newswire

  77. Persona achieves FedRAMP Moderate Authorization

    The SF identity unicorn ($2B valuation, Rails backend) earns FedRAMP Moderate Authorization as the only identity-verification provider in the FedRAMP 20x Phase 2 pilot.

    Business Wire

  78. SF Ruby Meetup, May @ Checkr: fraud at scale, DSPy.rb, Chatwoot CEO

    Thursday May 21, 5pm, One Montgomery St. Kurt Ude (Checkr) on engineering fraud solutions at enterprise scale, Waldemar Quevedo (Synadia) on building agents in Ruby with DSPy, and Pranav Raj (Chatwoot CEO, YC W21).

    Luma

  79. thoughtbot becomes second member of the Ruby Alliance

    The Ruby Alliance gets its second member after Gusto: thoughtbot commits engineering time and financial support to RubyGems and shared Ruby infrastructure.

    Ruby Central

  80. RubyGems repels a supply-chain attack — registrations restored in five days

    Thousands of attacker-controlled accounts flooded the registry with tens of thousands of malicious packages (May 11).

    The Hacker News

  81. Balkan Ruby 2026 in Sofia — 12 talks on AI and Rails internals

    May 15-16. Jean Boussier on multiprocessing as the most efficient way to serve Rails apps, Marco Roth on HTML-aware ERB, Vladimir Dementyev (Evil Martians) with 'Drop your app/services!', Carmine Paolino's 'Ruby Is the Best Language for Building AI Web Apps,' and a PostgreSQL-to-SQLite migration story from production.

    Balkan Ruby

  82. Snapdocs and BNY launch automated eCustody for mortgages

    Snapdocs, the Rails-built digital mortgage-closing platform, partners with BNY to automate collateral delivery and electronic custody, connecting Snapdocs' eVault to one of the world's largest custodians.

    Business Wire

  83. Fin launches Operator — an AI agent that manages the AI agent

    Two days after the rebrand, Fin debuts Operator: an AI back-office for the teams that configure, monitor, and improve the customer-facing Fin agent.

    Fin

  84. Doximity closes FY2026 at $645M revenue with 800K+ active prescribers

    SF-based Rails Foundation Core member reports FY2026 revenue of $644.9M (+13%) and free cash flow of $317.5M (+19%).

    Doximity

  85. Sensor Tower acquires app-intelligence rival AppMagic

    Sensor Tower, the Rails-built mobile-market-intelligence company, acquires AppMagic to broaden its data coverage and add an SMB tier.

    PocketGamer.biz

  86. Intercom renames the company to Fin, after its AI agent

    The 15-year-old company takes its AI agent's name: the corporate entity is now Fin, with Intercom continuing as the help-desk product.

    Intercom Blog

  87. Clio crosses $500M ARR — up from $400M six months prior

    The legal practice platform and longtime Rails shop hits $500M in annual recurring revenue, serving legal professionals in 130+ countries.

    Clio

  88. Gusto becomes first member of Ruby Alliance, Ruby Central's new ecosystem coalition

    Ruby Central launches the Ruby Alliance — a coalition of companies making significant investments in the long-term health, resilience, and sustainability of the Ruby ecosystem and its infrastructure.

    Ruby Central

  89. Shopify Summer '26 Edition: Horizon themes, AI block generation, 150+ changes

    Rails Foundation Core member ships 150+ changes: the Horizon theme system with 10 free themes and AI block generation via Shopify Magic, up to 50% faster cart and checkout, a ground-up POS v10, Sidekick answering plain-English questions over ShopifyQL, and Payments in 16 new countries.

    Shopify

  90. Gusto Spring Showcase: ~75 features deepen Claude, ChatGPT, Slack

    SF Rails unicorn ($9.5B valuation) extends its agent-accessible footprint.

    Gusto

  91. Omada crosses 1M members, joins Optum Rx Weight Engage for GLP-1

    SF Rails company posts Q1 revenue $78M (+42% YoY), 1.02M members (+51%, first time over 1M), and a small adjusted EBITDA profit ($1M vs. -$4M a year ago).

    GlobeNewsWire

  92. Block Q1 2026: record gross profit $2.91B (+27%), Cash App +38%

    Adjusted EPS $0.85 (+52%). Raised full-year guidance to $12.33B gross profit / $3.34B adjusted operating income.

    StockTitan

  93. Airbnb Q1 2026: $2.7B revenue (+18%), GBV $29.2B

    Rails-rooted travel platform raises full-year revenue growth outlook to low-to-mid teens.

    Airbnb News

  94. RubyLLM 1.15: image editing, cost tracking, Action Text safety

    Carmine Paolino's RubyLLM (≈5M downloads, ~3,900 stars) ships image editing via paint, conversation cost tracking with cache-read/write buckets, and Action Text plain-text extraction so HTML doesn't leak into prompts.

    GitHub

  95. Chime turns first GAAP profit — $647M revenue (+25%), 10.2M members

    SF-based Rails fintech reports its first GAAP profitable quarter as a public company.

    Chime Investor Relations

  96. Instacart Q1 2026: first $1B revenue quarter, ads +16%

    Rails-backed grocery platform crosses $1B in quarterly revenue for the first time.

    Instacart IR

  97. GitHub adopts Herb to lint 500K lines of ERB across the github.com monolith

    Joel Hawksley, staff engineer at GitHub working on the github.com Rails monolith, publishes the inside story: Rails core wants Herb to replace Erubi, and GitHub — rendering ERB at the largest scale of any Rails app — was asked to validate the parser.

    hawksley.org

  98. Hinge Health revenue jumps 47% to $182M in Q1

    Hinge Health, the digital musculoskeletal-care platform running Ruby on Rails microservices (NYSE: HNGE), beats first-quarter estimates with revenue up 47% year over year to $182M.

    The Motley Fool

  99. Bolt.new comes to Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365

    StackBlitz's Rails-backed AI app builder Bolt.new partners with Microsoft to reach Azure and Microsoft 365 customers, bringing prompt-to-app development to the enterprise.

    Bolt.new

  100. Great Question raises $13M Series A led by Inovia Capital

    The Bay Area UX research platform (YC W21, Rails + React) raises $13M to expand its AI-driven research tools.

    Great Question

  101. Doximity ships free Clinical AI Suite to U.S. clinicians

    SF-based Rails Foundation Core member bundles Ask, Scribe, and Dialer into one free product for U.S. clinicians.

    Doximity Blog

  102. Shopify Q1 2026: $3.2B revenue (+34%), first $100B+ GMV quarter

    Rails Foundation Core member crosses $100B in quarterly GMV for the first time.

    Shopify

  103. Blue Ridge Ruby 2026 in Asheville — 21 talks, agent-thread cluster

    Two-day, single-track Ruby conference in downtown Asheville (April 30 - May 1).

    Blue Ridge Ruby

  104. Checkr launches Profiles — verified identity that travels with you

    SF background-check platform ($2.2B valuation, Rails) ships portable verified identity: identity verification, background checks, and credential validation in a shareable profile that individuals own.

    PR Newswire

  105. Stripe Sessions 2026: 288 launches, agentic commerce, Link AI-agent wallet

    SF Ruby company (Sinatra + internal framework) ships 288 new products at its annual conference.

    Stripe Newsroom

  106. Saeloun packages Garry Tan's AI toolkit as a Rails workflow

    Rails consultancy Saeloun publishes a long-form walkthrough of the YC CEO's stack — Perplexity, Claude Code, Codex, Conductor, GBrain, gstack, Copilot/CodeRabbit, mandatory human gate — framed explicitly as the Rails AI setup.

    Saeloun

  107. Matz unveils Spinel — AI-built Ruby AOT compiler, 11.6× faster than MiniRuby

    At RubyKaigi 2026 in Hakodate, Yukihiro Matsumoto debuted Spinel, a native Ruby compiler that goes Ruby → AST → C → binary.

    The Register

  108. Intercom launches Fin for Sales — AI agent now qualifies leads and books meetings

    Fin moves beyond support. Spring broadcast ships Fin for Sales (qualifying leads, booking meetings, starting trials), a free Fin Copilot tier (10 conversations/month per agent), and Fin Insights with CX Score and Optimize Dashboard.

    SiliconANGLE

  109. Herb v0.10 ships diff engine, dev server, and the foundation for reactive ERB

    Marco Roth releases Herb v0.10 in time for RubyKaigi 2026, with a Syntax Tree Diff Engine, a Herb Dev Server (live page updates without full refresh, via the new @herb-tools/client package), compile-time optimizations for Action View tag helpers, and ActionView-specific static analysis.

    GitHub

  110. Rails World 2026 heads to Austin — 1,200 seats, AI/Agentic Systems track

    Rails Foundation announces the biggest Rails World yet: Austin, Sep 23–24, 1,200-attendee capacity with dedicated AI / Agentic Systems and Trust & Security tracks.

    Rails Foundation

  111. AngelList launches USVC — $500-minimum venture fund open to everyone

    SF-based Rails platform opens a regulated closed-end venture fund to every U.S. investor (no accreditation required) at a $500 minimum.

    Crowdfund Insider

  112. RubyKaigi 2026: the world's largest Ruby conference heads to Hakodate

    Three days in Hokkaido, Japan. Speakers include Matz, Charles Nutter (JRuby), and Satoshi Tagomori.

    RubyKaigi

  113. Ruby 4.0.3 ships ERB 6.0.1.1 security patch

    A point release patching CVE-2026-41316: a Marshal.load deserialization vulnerability triggered when ERB and ActiveSupport are loaded against untrusted input.

    ruby-lang.org

  114. Ruby Runway: first-ever global startup pitch competition from Ruby Central

    Early-stage Ruby startups (under $500K raised) compete live at RubyConf 2026 in Las Vegas.

    RubyConf

  115. Handshake AI reaches ~$1.1B annualized gross revenue, up 349% — on a Rails monolith

    The career network's AI data-labeling arm serves OpenAI and other frontier labs at a ~$1.1B annualized gross revenue run rate (+349% YoY, ~$450M net after contractor pay).

    Upstarts Media

  116. Shopify acquires Vantage Discovery to deepen AI search stack

    Rails Foundation Core member absorbs the San Jose AI-search startup for an undisclosed amount.

    BetaKit

  117. Garry Tan: "Thin harness, fat skills" — the agentic engineering thesis

    YC CEO publishes a 90-day retrospective on agentic engineering: push fuzzy operations into markdown skills, push deterministic operations into code, keep the harness thin.

    LinkedIn

  118. thoughtbot ships a Rails-audit Claude Code skill

    Jose Blanco and Chad Pytel built a Claude Code skill that runs a structured Rails code audit against thoughtbot's Ruby Science / Testing Rails playbooks plus a security checklist, returning severity-tagged Markdown reports.

    thoughtbot

  119. Omacon NYC: DHH's sold-out 130-person event at Shopify celebrates agent-native tools

    $299 tickets sold out in hours. ThePrimeagen, TJ DeVries, Dax Raad on stage.

    Omacon

  120. Stripe details Selective Test Execution for its 50M-line Ruby monorepo

    Aditya Anchuri (Tech Lead, Ruby Infra Platform) publishes the inside story of Stripe's CI: 50 million lines of Ruby (Sinatra + internal framework), and Selective Test Execution that runs only ~5% of tests on average per PR.

    Stripe Dev Blog

  121. Puma 8.0 "Into the Arena": IO-bound thread management

    Default Rails web server adds IO-bound thread marking (puma.mark_as_io_bound), dynamic thread pool updates at runtime, and default IPv6 bind address.

    GitHub

  122. RubyGems.org ships DoS prevention and compromised password detection

    AST-based gem content validation designed by Aaron Patterson, audited against all 180K existing gems.

    RubyGems Blog

  123. AtoB to acquire India's LogiPe for global fleet payments

    AtoB, the Ruby-based "Stripe for transportation" fuel-and-payments platform (YC S20), acquires India's LogiPe to build a next-generation global fleet-payments platform spanning US trucking and international logistics.

    Telematics Wire

  124. Gusto acquires Mosey and ships payroll in Claude and Slack

    SF-based Rails unicorn ($9.5B valuation) acquires compliance platform Mosey (April 8) — then ships payroll inside Claude and Slack (April 9).

    PR Newswire

  125. JRuby 10.0.5.0 adds Java 26 and RISC-V 64 support

    Targets Ruby 3.4 compatibility with official Java 26 support and RISC-V 64 architecture.

    JRuby

  126. Intercom opens Fin API platform to developers

    Rails Foundation Core member opens its Fin AI agent to third-party developers.

    Intercom Blog

  127. Coinbase, Stripe, and Shopify back x402 Foundation for AI payments

    Three Ruby-based companies — Coinbase (Rails), Stripe (Sinatra), and Shopify (Rails) — back the Linux Foundation's new open standard for AI-native payments.

    CoinDesk

  128. Salesforce acquires Qualified, maker of the Piper AI SDR

    Qualified, the Rails-built agentic-marketing company (GraphQL, ClickHouse; $163M raised), is acquired by Salesforce.

    Salesforce

  129. Thatch welcomes Venteur customers, consolidating ICHRA lead

    SF-based Rails health benefits platform (Series B, $84.5M raised, a16z/Index/General Catalyst) takes over competitor Venteur's customers, employees, and broker relationships.

    PR Newswire

  130. Rails adds official AGENTS.md for AI coding agents

    Rafael Mendonça França opens AGENTS.md; Xavier Noria merges.

    GitHub

  131. Ruby 3.2 reaches end of life — time to upgrade to Ruby 4.0

    Final security patches for Ruby 3.2 (3.2.11) and 3.3 (3.3.11) shipped March 27.

    ruby-lang.org

  132. Basecamp becomes agent-accessible — new CLI and AI skill modules from 37signals

    DHH ships a new API, CLI, and agent skill modules letting AI agents manage projects, create to-do lists, post messages, and arrange schedules.

    HEY World

  133. Miro acquires Reforge to build AI-first product tools

    Reforge, the Rails-built growth and product-education platform, is acquired by Miro to accelerate AI-first tools for product teams.

    Miro

  134. Apollo.io acquires Pocus, approaching $200M ARR — Rails monolith keeps expanding

    SF-based Rails sales platform (230M+ contacts, approaching $200M ARR) absorbs enterprise revenue intelligence platform Pocus.

    TNW

  135. Herb v0.9: the ERB toolchain that gives the Rails frontend real IDE support

    A fast C-based HTML+ERB parser that now understands Action View helpers like tag.*, content_tag, and link_to.

    Herb Blog

  136. PagerDuty posts $493M in FY2026 revenue and a third straight profitable quarter

    PagerDuty, the Rails-built incident-management platform (NYSE: PD), reports $493M in full-year revenue and its third consecutive quarter of GAAP profitability as it leans into agentic operations.

    Business Wire

  137. Chatwoot trending: 27.7K GitHub stars for the open-source Rails alternative to Intercom

    The YC-backed, Rails-powered customer support platform is the fastest-growing Ruby repo on GitHub this month (+490 stars).

    GitHub

  138. Lago launches Embedded — white-label open-source billing built on Rails

    The open-source billing API (9K+ GitHub stars) launches Lago Embedded, letting companies ship billing as a feature in weeks.

    Lago Blog

  139. Apollo.io launches AI Assistant — first agentic GTM platform, built on Rails monolith

    SF-based $1.6B sales intelligence platform — powered by a Rails monolith serving 210M+ contacts — launches its AI Assistant out of beta.

    PR Newswire

  140. Claude Code adds Ruby LSP to its official plugin directory

    Anthropic merges Ruby LSP into its official Claude Code plugins, giving Ruby developers one-command install for go-to-definition, hover, and diagnostics — 900x faster than text search for finding call sites.

    GitHub

  141. Intercom raises $250M as ARR tops $400M — all on a Rails monolith

    The Rails Foundation Core member secures $250M in debt financing.

    Business Post

  142. YC CEO Garry Tan ships garryslist.org with Rails + Claude Code, open-sources his setup

    Garry Tan averages 10K LOC and 100 PRs/week building a Rails app with Claude Code.

    GitHub

  143. Omada Health reports first profitable quarter — 58% revenue growth

    SF-based Rails company reports Q4 revenue of $75.8M (+58% YoY), its first profitable quarter with $5.16M net income.

    GlobeNewsWire

  144. Checkr launches AI identity verification to combat deepfake hiring fraud

    SF-based Rails company launches IDV product with biometric liveness detection and forensic document analysis.

    SiliconANGLE

  145. GitLab surpasses $1B ARR — authorizes $400M share buyback

    Rails Foundation Core member crosses the $1B ARR milestone.

    BusinessWire

  146. Charles Schwab completes $636M acquisition of Forge Global

    Forge, the Rails-built private-markets marketplace whose careers page says all future development happens in Ruby on Rails, is acquired by Charles Schwab for $636M.

    Charles Schwab

  147. Chime targets GAAP profitability in 2026, projecting $2.6B+ revenue

    The Rails-powered fintech that IPO'd at $11.6B reports 31% revenue growth and 9.5M active members.

    StockTitan

  148. Shopify Winter '26 Edition: 150+ updates, Agentic Storefronts, $3.67B/quarter

    Rails Foundation Core member ships 150+ product updates including Agentic Storefronts (products in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Copilot) and Sidekick AI app builder.

    Shopify

  149. CodeCrafters raises $1.8M seed for advanced developer courses

    CodeCrafters, the Rails-and-Ember platform for hands-on "build your own Redis / Git / SQLite" programming challenges (YC S22), raises a $1.8M seed round to grow its catalog for experienced developers.

    CodeCrafters

  150. Spring Health acquires Alma — combined $6–7B entity, $1B revenue in year one

    The Rails-powered mental health platform (50M+ lives covered) acquires Alma's therapist network (120M+ lives).

    PR Newswire

  151. Shippo ships the first agentic shipping platform, Shippo MCP

    Shippo, the Rails-built multi-carrier shipping API, launches Shippo MCP, an agentic layer that lets AI assistants buy labels, compare rates, and track packages on behalf of merchants.

    PR Newswire

  152. Bugcrowd acquires Mayhem Security to add AI to pentesting

    Bugcrowd, the Rails-built crowdsourced-security platform, acquires Mayhem Security to pair its human hacker network with AI-driven automation across penetration testing and vulnerability discovery.

    PR Newswire

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