Ruby Weekly issue 813 covers Lucas Dohmen's new community-run Rails fork called Amiko, which criticizes Rails' stagnation and DHH's direction, drawing pushback from Ryan Bigg who favors Hanami instead. Also covered: Rails 7.2 officially reaching end of security support on August 9 (with Rails 8.0 following November 7), a breaking JSON gem 3.0.0 RC1 release removing create_additions, Matz's proposal for String#tr hash-style options, Euruko and Rails World 2026 event details, an LLM agent coding experiment, and several gem releases (Haml 7.3, Reline 0.7, Delayed 4.0, Ahoy Email 4.0, Brakeman 8.0.6).
Questions this post answers
When does Rails 7.2 stop receiving security support?
Rails 7.2 stopped receiving official security support as of August 9. Rails 8.0 will reach the same end-of-support point on November 7. Teams still running Rails 7.2 in production should plan an upgrade path since no further security patches will be issued for that version. daily.dev helps Rails teams track framework end-of-life dates before they turn into unpatched vulnerabilities.
What breaking changes are in the json gem 3.0.0 RC1 release for Ruby?
The json gem 3.0.0 RC1 removes create_additions, making JSON.load and JSON.dump safe by default, and it now raises an error on unknown options instead of silently ignoring them. This is an intentionally breaking release that maintainer Jean Boussier is asking developers to test ahead of the full release next month. developers upgrading Ruby's json gem can follow breaking changes like these on daily.dev before shipping.
What is Amiko and why was it created as a fork of Rails?
Amiko is a community-run fork of Rails 8 announced by Lucas Dohmen, who argues that Rails' core has changed little since version 6.0 and that DHH's philosophy no longer matches his own vision for the framework. Critic Ryan Bigg has pushed back on the idea, arguing the Hanami framework is a better path forward instead. daily.dev keeps Rails developers weighing framework forks like Amiko against alternatives such as Hanami.