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title: "Issue #808: Getting Mastodon on Spinel — Ruby Weekly"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/issue-808-getting-mastodon-on-spinel-ruby-weekly-idv8fz5r1
source_url: https://rubyweekly.com/issues/808
type: article
source: "Ruby Weekly"
published: 2026-07-09T16:07:29.426Z
updated: 2026-07-09T16:36:16.494Z
tags: ["general-programming", "ruby", "rails", "sqlite"]
reading_time: 3
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
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# Issue #808: Getting Mastodon on Spinel — Ruby Weekly

**[Ruby Weekly](https://daily.dev/sources/rbywkly)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Ruby Weekly issue #808 covers a range of Ruby and Rails ecosystem news. Highlights include a new RubyGems stats page powered by ClickHouse, Aaron Patterson's proposal for a new YARV instruction to optimize string allocation in CRuby, and a proposal for frozen strings from Symbol#to_s in Ruby 4.1. Notable releases include Extralite 3.0 (a fast SQLite wrapper for Ruby), AASM 6.0 (state machines for Ruby classes), Hotwire Native 1.3, and Lexxy (37signals' modern rich text editor for Rails replacing Trix). Also featured: a new official Rails tutorial on product reviews, articles on Sidekiq rolling deploy issues, writing a linter, and an interview with Nokogiri maintainer Mike Dalessio on AI and maintainer burnout.

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