Token Ruby #7: Back from the Break and Building with Agents

Hi there!

It's been a while, but I am back from the unexpected break. A lot has happened, here are some of the highlights from 2025:

• I traveled to Poland and gave a talk at wroclove.rb
• I went viral on X (opens in new tab)
• I organized an AI and Ruby hackathon (opens in new tab)
• I attended the SF Ruby Conf and caught up with Ruby friends traveling around the world.

Interesting Reads

• The Agentic AI Handbook: Production-Ready Patterns (opens in new tab)
• Prevent the Robocalypse with Claude Code and TDD (opens in new tab)
• Companies building their own coding agents:
  • Why We Built Our Background Agent (opens in new tab) by Ramp
  • Minions: Stripe's One-Shot, End-to-End Coding Agents, Part 2 (opens in new tab) by Stripe
• CLAUDE.md for Ruby on Rails:
  • Rails + Inertia.js CLAUDE.md Starter (opens in new tab) by Shpigford
  • AGENTS.md: Rails Code Generation Standards (opens in new tab) by palkan
  • Claude Code Skills for Rails (opens in new tab)
  • Nate Berkopec's CLAUDE.md (opens in new tab)

Thoughts

I've landed on an agentic coding setup I'm happy with:

• Editor: Zed with no AI plugins my config (opens in new tab)
• AI: Claude Code primarily, occasionally opencode
• Multi-agent: Conductor (opens in new tab) when I want parallel agents

Shop

I read The Interior Design Handbook (opens in new tab) by Frida Ramstedt. It's the kind of book you'll want to keep on your shelf.

I haven't bought anything new lately, but I came across Alex Carpenter's curated list (opens in new tab). It's a highly curated collection of life-improving products. I'm planning to have something similar soon.

Joke

Why do some Ruby methods not gossip?
Because they prefer to keep things private.

That's all for now. Have a great week.