Release notes & build notes
What's new across the Maquina tools, and how they're built.
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Maquina Components 0.6.0: Themeable Beyond Color
Radius, elevation and focus rings become design tokens in this Rails + Tailwind component library, engine CSS moves into @layer components, and utilities win.
Introducing Nexo: the harness for Ruby agents
Nexo gives the RubyLLM ecosystem one front door: safe sandboxing, explicit permissions, and a real job primitive for agent runs. What it is, and why it exists.
Maquina Components 0.5.0: Drawer and Scaffold Templates
A Turbo-aware Drawer component and a scaffold_templates generator that styles rails g scaffold output — Maquina Components 0.5.0, built mostly by contributors.
Introducing Fragua: the harness already composed for Rails
Fragua, an AI agent orchestrator for Rails — turn an idea into a shipped app through research, plan, spec, and ship, with agents that respect the craft. Now taking private beta requests.
recuerd0 Now Has an MCP Server — and a Better Look
recuerd0 now has a remote MCP server with OAuth 2.1, a markdown editor based on 37signals' House MD, and a refined UI built on Maquina Components.
Recuerd0 Now Reads Like a Filesystem
Recuerd0's API now lets AI agents grep, glob, and read memories in line ranges — the same primitives Claude Code already uses. Plus categories, links, and caching.
MVP Creator: From Idea to Documents in Three Prompts
Use MVP Creator, a Claude Code plugin, to generate research reports, business plans, brand guides, and technical specs for new Rails projects. Three prompts, six documents.
Maquina Generators: From rails new to Production-Ready
Rails generators for authentication, job queues, error tracking, and security. No runtime dependency — generate once, own the code forever.
Recuerd0 Source Code Is Now Available
The Recuerd0 source code is now on GitHub. Built with Rails 8, SQLite, and Hotwire — here's a look under the hood.
Announcing Recuerd0: A Knowledge Base for AI Tool Context
Versioned knowledge base for AI coding tools. Curate project context once, serve it via REST API to Claude Code, Cursor, and ChatGPT. SaaS or self-hosted.
Maquina Components 0.4.0: Taming Turbo
Turbo Drive and Morph compatibility fixes for sidebars, plus a Rails partial rendering fix for block content in 9 components.
Maquina 0.3.1: Calendar, Date Picker & Claude Code Skills
Maquina Components 0.3.1 adds Calendar and Date Picker for Rails. Plus Claude Code skills for consistent UI generation and Rails code simplification.
Claude Skill for Maquina Components
Teach Claude how to build consistent UIs in Rails applications using maquina_components. A skill for AI-assisted development.
Maquina Components 0.3.0: Combobox and Toast
Two new interactive components for Rails applications. Searchable dropdowns and non-intrusive notifications.
Rails MCP Server 1.5.0: Security Hardening and Sandboxed Environment Support
Version 1.5.0 brings comprehensive security improvements from community contributor hellvinz, plus support for sandboxed AI agents like GitHub Copilot and Claude Code.
Announcing Maquina Components: Opinionated Ul for Rails Applications
Production-ready ERB partials styled with Tailwind CSS 4.0. Extracted from real applications.
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