Remote Ruby Rails World 2025 Recap
Sep 26, 2025
Chris and Andrew share their travel tales from Rails World 2025 in Amsterdam, highlighting standout moments from the conference. They delve into exciting new features like ReActionView and Action Push, emphasizing their impact on developer experience. The duo discusses the importance of tooling innovations in Ruby, as well as the theme of enhancing existing frameworks. With anecdotes from the conference and reflections on personal adventures, they wrap up with a glimpse into future plans and the Rails community's evolving landscape.
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ReactionView Debut And Install Drama
- Marco's ReactionView talk used hundreds of slides and blew the audience away with developer tooling demos.
- Chris and Andrew tried installing ReactionView, hit load-order bugs, and Chris fixed a configuration issue the next day.
Interactive Developer Tooling Trend
- Developer tooling is becoming interactive and AI-ready, changing how we debug and inspect apps in the browser.
- ReactionView and better ERB parsing let tools and AI analyze views directly rather than relying on brittle hacks.
Adopt ERB Formatting Tools
- Use an ERB formatter to avoid messy editor formatting and broken ERB tags in VS Code.
- Expect Herb's built-in formatter to drastically reduce ERB formatting pain when it's adopted.