Why I still write Ruby

28 October 2026

Every few years someone tells me Ruby is finished. Every few years I keep using it anyway, mostly for small tools like the one that builds this site.

The short version

• It reads like prose, which matters when you come back to code months later.
• The standard library covers most of what a small script needs.
• ERB and YAML are built in, so this whole blog needs one gem.

posts.select { |post| post.sites.include?(site.key) }

Boring tools are a feature, not a bug.

That one line above is the whole trick behind serving three blogs from one folder of posts.