I attended RubyConf India 2025 in Jaipur, where I learned about JRuby's integration with Java and discovered Sonic Pi. My trip included extensive road travel across Rajasthan, exploring its scenic beauty and historical sites. Engaging with local culture and food added to the enriching experience of both the conference and adventure.

The author shares their three years of experience with Ruby & Rails, expressing admiration for Ruby's flexibility and customization options. They discovered instance_exec, which executes code in a class instance context, and ponder its potential use cases, particularly in testing private methods and variables despite differing opinions on testing practices.

RVM is a great tool to manage multiple versions of Ruby when working on projects. I was working on a Rails project which was using Ruby 2.7.5, so tried to install it using RVM’s standard installation process: rvm install 2.7.5. It fails, and in the log file you can see [...]