Rails World Tickets, New JavaScript Package Managers, and Security Worries
From Remote Ruby by Chris Oliver, Andrew Mason, David Hill
May 29, 2026 · 42 min · Episode 353
About this episode
The hosts discuss Rails World tickets, JavaScript package managers, security concerns, and updates in the Ruby ecosystem.
Chris, Andrew, and David kick things off with a detour through Dungeon Crawler Carl, Rails World tickets, and conference travel before diving into developer tooling, package manager security, and the latest Ruby ecosystem updates. The conversation covers everything from Hotwire-style UI patterns and pnpm/Corepack setup to Jeff Dickey’s new package manager, the RubyGems malicious package attack, Ruby 4.0.4, Shopify’s Rubydex, Claude/Codex chatter, and the increasingly strange future of AI agen...
People in this episode
Hosts: Chris Oliver, Andrew Mason, David Hill
Topics covered
- Rails World
- JavaScript Package Managers
- Security
- Developer Tooling
- Ruby Ecosystem Updates
- AI
Keywords
- Rails World
- JavaScript
- package managers
- security
- Ruby
- Hotwire
- RubyGems
- AI
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Shopify
Products: Dungeon Crawler Carl, RubyGems, Ruby 4.0.4, Rubydex, Hotwire, pnpm, Corepack, Claude, Codex
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