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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Business Wire

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

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

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

Blastoff Rails

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

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

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

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

Business Wire

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

SF Ruby

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

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

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

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

Natural

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

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

PR Newswire

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

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

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

Ruby Central

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

The Hacker News

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

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

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

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

Doximity

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

PocketGamer.biz

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

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

Clio

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

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

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

Gusto

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

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

StockTitan

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

Airbnb News

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

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

Chime Investor Relations

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

Instacart IR

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

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

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

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

Great Question

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

Doximity Blog

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

Shopify

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

Blue Ridge Ruby

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

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

Stripe Newsroom

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

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

The Register

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

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

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

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

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

RubyKaigi

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

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

RubyConf

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

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

BetaKit

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

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

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

Omacon

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

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

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

RubyGems Blog

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

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

PR Newswire

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

JRuby

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

Intercom Blog

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

CoinDesk

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

Salesforce

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

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

GitHub

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

ruby-lang.org

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

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

Miro

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

TNW

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

Herb Blog

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

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

GitHub

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

Lago Blog

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

PR Newswire

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

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

Business Post

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

GitHub

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

GlobeNewsWire

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

SiliconANGLE

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

BusinessWire

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

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

StockTitan

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

Shopify

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

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

PR Newswire

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

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