Ruby Upgrades & RAM Shortages

Chris, Andrew, and David are back together, and the conversation starts out with TV talk, Fallout hype, why some shows overstay their welcome (Prison Break), and the “season one magic” problem (Reacher). Then there’s a big shoutout to Marco’s Rails Luminary win, and a deep dive into AI rabbit holes: self-hosting LLMs, Mac minis, and the looming reality of both token costs and RAM shortages. They discuss the Ruby releases (3.4.8 + Ruby 4.0 preview3), highlighting practical fixes, previewing features like Ruby:: Box, new syntax tweaks, and core classes updates they’re excited about.  Hit download now! 


Links

• Chris Oliver X (https://twitter.com/excid3?lang=en)
• Andrew Mason Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/andrewm.codes)
• David Hill Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/davidhill.dev)
• Judoscale- Remote Ruby listener gift (https://judoscale.com/friends/new?sou...)
• Fallout (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12637874/)
• Reacher (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9288030/)
• Prison Break (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0455275/)
• Ruby 3.4.8 Released (https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/202...)
• Ruby 4.0 Highlights (by Nithin Bekal) (https://nithinbekal.com/posts/ruby-4-0/)
• Ruby 4.0.0 preview3 Released (https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/202...)
• 2025 Rails Luminary-Marco Roth (https://rubyonrails.org/2025/12/17/ma...)  
• Surprising the 2025 Rails Luminary winner Marco Roth in Zurich (YouTube) (   • Surprising the 2025 Rails Luminary winner ...  )
• Ruby Box (https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/mas...)
• Herb (https://github.com/marcoroth/herb)
• ReActionView (https://github.com/marcoroth/reaction...)



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• Chris Oliver X/Twitter (https://twitter.com/excid3?lang=en)

• Andrew Mason X/Twitter (https://twitter.com/andrewmcodes?lang=en)

• Jason Charnes X/Twitter (https://twitter.com/jmcharnes?ref_src...)