Chris Oliver

It's time to welcome Chris Oliver (@excid3.com) as one of our amazing speakers! Chris is a Rails Luminary, founder of GoRails, and host of  Remote Ruby podcast.  We're very happy to have him on stage this year. Catch his talk at the conference.

$ git rich --quick

Could have spent another few months in Greece.

Discovered that ActionMailer *_deliver callbacks don't respect only/except options in Rails. Turns out it's a really simple fix because Mailers are Controllers behind the scenes. github.com/rails/rails/...

Went to the “nerdiest bar in Toronto” with @wesbos.com, Brooke, @excid3.com, my son, and @adamwathan.com!

This was a fun collaboration with @excid3.com and can't wait for the features it will unlock at @hatchbox.io 🤘

Had the pleasure of talking to @jdx.dev on Remote Ruby about Mise, precompiled Ruby, and all his other projects. Give it a listen here: www.remoteruby.com/2260490/epis...

RBQ Conf is officially cookin’. Our CFP is open, and we’re looking for sponsors who want to support a warm, community-first Ruby gathering in Austin. If you’ve got a meaty idea to share—or want to help bring year one to life—we’d love to hear from you. rbqconf.com

"He did not pick something easy to do." - @excid3.com on Episode 327 of Remote Ruby with Brendan Buckingham discussing @jremsikjr.bsky.social's choices in bringing XO Ruby to life

Shoutout to @marcoroth.dev for Herb. Just fixed a bunch of small typos in our HTML that it found. Browsers are pretty good at fixing these issues automatically, but I'd sure rather be sending correct HTML instead.

Watched a bunch of YouTube to fix the wife's coffee machine and now YouTube thinks I'm _really_ into coffee machines.

Missouri loves company. Good to sit down for a good long chat with Chris Oliver (@excid3.com) in his home town.

When people complain Shopify is too prominent, only main company donor in RC, etc. WTF folks. As if that was their choice! Where are the other companies pushing Ruby and Rails with real money and resources to be on par? Talk is cheap.

New Remote Ruby episode is out! With @excid3.com on paternity leave, I brought in @drbragg.dev and @chaelcodes.bsky.social to unpack the recent controversies surrounding Ruby Central and its control over RubyGems and Bundler. www.buzzsprout.com/2260490/epis...

announcing a new community-focused gem server from the team previously behind rubygems: gem.coop. join us and start using it today!

Bundler belongs to the Ruby community andre.arko.net/2025/09/25/b...

XO Ruby New Orleans is TOMORROW 🥳🥳 It's not too late to grab your ticket! 🏙️ Sat. 9/20, 8:30am-4:30pm 🎟️ Grab your ticket for $100: xoruby.com/event/new-orleans/

My #RailsWorld talk is live if you'd like to watch it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=lut2...

Just listened to @jremsikjr.bsky.social on the Remote Ruby podcast with @excid3.com - XO Ruby sounds like it's going to be an incredible time. Small conferences are the best! I hope everyone that made it to Chicago loved it. Starting to recover from my Rails World FOMO and now I've got XO Ruby FOMO

My office coworker, asleep on the job.

Updated JumpstartRails.com apps to Rails 8.1 beta and started running it in production. Everything is going smoothly so far!

Now that I'm home from #RailsWorld, just cut a new release of Noticed that adds support for Rails 8.1 github.com/excid3/noticed

May have went a bit off the Rails™ in my Rails World talk this year...

The more I work on my Rails World talk, the more ideas I get. Lots of good stuff I'm excited to share. Only 2 weeks away!

Found an 8 year old db snapshot collecting $0.06 a month for years on AWS. It was hiding in a region that's not used for anything else on this account. Love AWS.

@excid3.com thanks for being at my RailsConf talk and mentioning it on the Remote Ruby recap episode.

🚨 #RemoteRuby with @marcoroth.dev 🚨 @excid3.com & I sit down with @marcoroth.dev to talk: • The pain of ERB 😵‍💫 • What Herb is and why it’s spicy 🌿 • Formatting, linting, hot reloading & better DX • React components in your ERB?! 👀 • Conference stories & #Ruby ecosystem love ⬇️⬇️ Link below! ⬇️⬇️

After being on the other side and listening for so long, it was an honor to join Remote Ruby this week! We talked about Herb, Rails view templates, editor tooling, formatting/linting, the future of the Rails View Layer, and more! Link to the episode in the next post!

Thanks to @excid3.com and @andrewm.codes for having me! Listen here: www.remoteruby.com/2260490/epis...

I might have to port @gorails.com to Wordpress for April Fools. 🤔

Finally got around to revisiting @excid3.com's talk on Hotwire and the usage of different Turbo options (from @tropicalonrails.bsky.social) www.youtube.com/live/9LekwjC... [SPOILERS] Chris recommends: 1. Reaching for Turbo Refreshes FIRST 2. Turbo Frames next 3. Streams LAST Thank you, Chris 🙏

Just updated sellrepo.com with better instructions on how to create a GitHub token. They're quite confusing and I couldn't find the right page on GitHub again, so now it's as simple as clicking a link in the setup instructions. 🎉

This episode also has a massive argument between @excid3.com & I about whether @johnnunemaker.com should cut a 1.0 release of httparty.

All the talks from the final RailsConf are now posted! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

💎 Cut a new release of Noticed with a --bulk flag for the delivery method generator + better usage instructions for custom delivery methods. github.com/excid3/noticed

FerrumPDF now adds custom renderers to Rails for a much cleaner integration. You now call "render" just like you would for JSON or HTML and out pops a PDF of the page. @gorails.com lesson on this soon!

💎 Cut the 1.0 release for ferrum_pdf Browser creation is now thread safe and I think we're settled on the interface, so figured it was time for 1.0! github.com/excid3/ferru...

Added a new lesson to Learn Hotwire for using custom layouts without breaking Turbo Frames. 🎉 learnhotwire.com/sections/mor...

Ruby 3.4.5 is now precompiled for @hatchbox.io users and I've updated @jumpstartrails.com as well. 🎉 www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2025...

Cut a new release of FerrumPDF after all the help from Hack Spaces at #RailsConf. We addressed all the issues and PRs and released it as v0.4! github.com/excid3/ferru...

"We want this to be a welcoming place for people who bring kindness, curiosity, and care." This is why when @timriley.info asked if @honeybadger.io would be a founding patron of the @hanamirb.org project, I said please take my money.

Hope you all had a great final @railsconf! We loved hanging out with you all. 💖

Getting quoted in this week's issue of Ruby Weekly is doing wonders for my ego 😄 But seriously....WHEN ARE WE SWITCHING TO @honeybadger.io

I had a blast at #RailsConf! Thank you so much for all the support for and kind words about my presentation on the history of deploying Rails apps. Your appreciation for my work on the faker gem was overwhelming and really touched me. ❤️