--- title: Ruby Weekly Issue 787: February 12, 2026 | daily.dev description: This Ruby newsletter discusses testing framework performance, clarifying that major speedups from RSpec to Minitest migrations come from dropping cruft and... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/ruby-weekly-issue-787-february-12-2026-zsoean219 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Ruby Weekly Issue 787: February 12, 2026 | daily.dev og:description: This Ruby newsletter discusses testing framework performance, clarifying that major speedups from RSpec to Minitest migrations come from dropping cruft and... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/ruby-weekly-issue-787-february-12-2026-zsoean219 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/ZsOEAn219.png og:image:alt: Ruby Weekly Issue 787: February 12, 2026 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Ruby Weekly Issue 787: February 12, 2026 **[Ruby Weekly](https://daily.dev/sources/rbywkly)** · 3 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary This Ruby newsletter discusses testing framework performance, clarifying that major speedups from RSpec to Minitest migrations come from dropping cruft and rethinking approaches rather than the framework itself. It introduces FixtureBot, a new tool combining fixture speed with factory syntax. The issue also covers Rails performance monitoring improvements, timezone bugs, Heroku migration strategies, and various ecosystem updates including tool recommendations like mise for version management. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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