Ruby Talks: Ratnadeep Deshmane on Design Decisions in Rails, Vibe Coding, & RailsConf 2025

Ruby Central’s Marketing Director Rhiannon Payne sits down with Ratnadeep Deshmane, founder of BetaCraft and longtime Rubyist, ahead of his talk "The Rails Story: Two Decades of Design and Decisions" at RailsConf 2025. Topics include: - What Rails developers can learn from the framework’s 20-year evolution - How understanding the "why" behind Rails features like strong params can improve your daily work - How Ratnadeep's team is leveraging AI-assisted “vibe coding," and why he believes Rails is uniquely suited to GenAI tooling - His Ruby Vernac OSS project, teaching Ruby in Hindi, Marathi, and other native languages in India Don't miss his talk on July 10 at 4:00 PM at RailsConf 2025 in Philadelphia! Links mentioned: Twitter/X: https://x.com/rtdp RubySocial: https://ruby.social/@rtdp BetaCraft: https://betacraft.com/ RubyConf 2022 talk on Ruby Vernac: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBpjBeFnt7Y