RubyLLM 2.1: You Can Have It All
RubyLLM 2.1 does what LangChain, LangGraph, and LangSmith do together: an MCP client with per-user OAuth, tool search, typed judgments, evaluations, and OpenTelemetry tracing, in one Ruby gem.
RubyLLM 2.0: Tool Approval, Video, Speech, Citations, and Cost Tracking
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: A New Monthly Ruby Meetup in Berlin
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: The Agentic Loop, Exposed
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.
RubyLLM 2.0: Providers, Protocols, and Provider Gems
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: A Backup Is Only Real After You Restore It
kamal-backup 1.0 brings exact Rails restores, restore drills, and PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite, SFTP, and rclone support to Kamal.
ArchSpec 1.0: Executable Architecture Specification for Ruby's Agentic Coding Era
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.
RubyLLM::Schema Is Now Schematist: A JSON Schema DSL for Ruby with Full Draft 2020-12 Coverage
Schematist is a Ruby JSON Schema DSL with full Draft 2020-12 coverage, render-time values, standards-compliant output, and no runtime dependencies.
Founding a Company in Germany: €11,800 and 7 Months to Get a VAT ID
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.
