Ruby developers deserve glamorous terminals too. I want Ruby developers to build terminal applications so beautiful that even people who “don’t like CLIs” find themselves captivated.

I’ve recently been using AI to write CLI utilities in Go with Charm, but I know Ruby much better than Go so this is very exciting news. I’m even more excited about the coming work for the libraries to “feel more Ruby-like and idiomatic”.

Ruby 3.4.8 has been released as a routine update that includes bug fixes. The full details are available in the release notes on GitHub.

It’d be nice if the Ruby team maintained the Docker image now that Ruby has a release schedule. Always feels odd to see a new release and then have to wait for an image update to be able to test a deployment.

The release also features the Ministral 3 series—three edge-focused models (3B, 8B, and 14B parameters) designed for superior cost-to-performance efficiency. These smaller models include multimodal and multilingual capabilities, making them suitable for edge deployments.

I’m excited to see small models continuing to advance. While I’m all in on Claude Code for code-related tasks, I enjoy using local models for simple copywriting tasks or for tasks requiring complete privacy.

Interesting read on the journey of an open source constraint solver started 19 years ago.