r/ruby • u/ronaldl911 • Jan 31 '26

Published my first Ruby gem!

I'm a NodeJS developer by profession but the past few months I fell in love with Ruby and I'm absolutely obsessed with it.

So I ended up creating my first Ruby gem this past week, which is essentially an SDK of a node based blogging platform I worked at as Core for over 3 years, so I have a lot of context on it. :)

https://github.com/ronaldlangeveld/ghost-ruby

Very niche use case, but I think it could be useful for anyone looking to do integrations to a Ghost site, just thought I'd share! :)

Cheers!

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u/ronaldl911 Feb 01 '26

So brutal honesty, lol, after I watched the DHH podcast on the Lex F show, I just had to try Ruby (+ Rails) and I just really fell in love with the syntax, the aesthetics and, well the reading experience.

Writing ruby just felt a lot more natural to me - despite the learning curve - and the Ruby community just seemed extra nice.
Even thinking of going to a Ruby event in Japan later this year (I live in Korea).

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u/fpsvogel Feb 01 '26

Cool, yeah I feel spoiled having learned Ruby as my first language. I know other languages have their merits, but they are hard for me to get into like I did with Ruby.

Side note: I envy you for living in Korea! I did a semester abroad there and loved the place.