What's new in RubyLLM 2.0: tool approval and durable agents, video, speech, OCR, reranking, provider tools, citations, cost tracking, batches, caching, and the upgrade path from 1.16.
Berlin.rb is a new monthly meetup for Berlin's Ruby community. Free, second Tuesday of every month. The first one is September 8, with talks by Paweł Strzałkowski and I.
RubyLLM 2.0 breaks ask into verbs you can drive yourself: stage a message, call the model once, run tools, step, resume mid-round, and cancel from anywhere.
OpenAI moves to the Responses API by default, while a new provider architecture and gem generator make external providers first-class.
kamal-backup 1.0 brings exact Rails restores, restore drills, and PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite, SFTP, and rclone support to Kamal.
ArchSpec turns your architecture into an executable spec: declare components and boundaries in one Ruby file, and every change gets checked, whether a person or an agent wrote it.
Schematist is a Ruby JSON Schema DSL with full Draft 2020-12 coverage, render-time values, standards-compliant output, and no runtime dependencies.
A timeline of founding a company in Germany: €11,800 spent, two companies registered, 203 days to a VAT ID, and a registration nobody mentioned.
RubyLLM 1.16 adds concurrent tools with threads or fibers, Rails-style instrumentation, and proxy support through api_base for every native provider.
