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Tag: Ruby
I was vibe coding with Antigravity tonight, and I broke it in the most bizarre way. With the repo at this commit and with a clean working tree, I gave Gemini 3 Pro (High) this prompt:
Check out my git tags. Check out my git log! Ope, check out my @
CHANGELOG.md… And then write it.
For a few moments it seemed to chug along just fine, building a coherent Chain of Thought. Then it got weirder, and weirder.
I just published a new gem: ratatui_ruby, which offers Ratatui bindings for Ruby. It allows you to cook up Terminal User Interfaces in Ruby. I expect to write more about it in the coming days. Until then, check out the repo, the documentation, the examples, the mailing lists, the issue tracker, and the ruby gem!
With Ruby 4 set to release on Christmas Day and available in preview now, the Pragmatic Bookshelf just made a huge announcement.
My Reply
I like this a lot. It makes me want to go even harder:
I haven’t published since April because I’ve been afraid. I also avoided social media, news aggregators, and discussion forums for months. I’m done letting fear stop me. What was I afraid of? In this post I detail every single thing I’ve avoided admitting on this blog.
Fizz Buzz, the children’s game turned coding interview question, requires little more than basic programming literacy to solve. But it has just enough complexity that it can also be used to illustrate some important tenets of object-oriented design through refactoring.
When I learned lean software development, I abandoned year-long planning at work and at home. This year, I broke my rule. I made a New Year’s resolution. I decided to broaden my skills so I could ship a full-stack enterprise web app completely on my own. No back-end developers, no product managers, no UI designers, and no vibe coding. Since I wrote Ruby years ago and Rails is having a Renaissance right now, I wrote down the following and taped it to my bedroom door:
In 2025, Kerrick is a Full-Stack Programmer
Develop & deploy Ruby on Rails apps, covered by automated tests, to real users.