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Really exciting to see Herb being adopted at GitHub! 🌿 Over the past months, the GitHub team has been running Herb across one of the largest Rails codebases out there where Herb helped uncover real issues missed by existing tooling while also providing invaluable feedback. 🙌

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A huge thank you to Joel Hawksley in particular for putting so much time into testing Herb at that scale and helping push the project forward by reporting bugs and submitting fixes along the way.

Seeing Herb operate in an environment like GitHub feels like a huge milestone for the project and a really strong signal for the future of HTML-aware ERB tooling in Rails. Very excited to keep pushing toward Herb 1.0 🚀 Read Joel's blog post here: hawksley.org/2026/05/06/a...

hawksley.orgAdopting Herb at GitHub - Joel HawksleyWe've spent the past few months integrating Herb into the GitHub.com monolith. It caught numerous bugs missed by our existing tooling and allowed us to migrate off the effectively-archived erb_lint, b...