Continuations 2026/37: Response streaming

# Continuations 2026/37: Response streaming

These weeknotes cover work across several Ruby libraries and community activity. Tim Riley reports a new job, maintenance fixes prompted by a gem upgrade, practical improvements to Dry CLI for streams and styled text, a Hanami Action response-streaming addition, sponsor-list updates, and maintainership developments across the Dry ecosystem.

New job and context

Tim started a new role at HotDoc as a manager/engineer. That change in schedule pushed these notes later than usual, but it also frames the week: small bursts of focused maintenance and collaboration across libraries he helps maintain.

Dry Monads: fix for json gem 3.0

Dry Monads' CI started failing after the json gem removed the json/add custom serialization machinery in version 3.0. The codebase was migrated to the new JSON::Coder API and released as Dry Monads v1.11.0. This is a targeted compatibility change to keep serialization working under the newer json gem behavior.

Dry CLI: styled text and stream dependency handling

Styled text support landed in Dry CLI. Key characteristics:

• Work was collaborative, with multiple contributors (Aaron and Tim) adding different parts of the feature.

Separately, Tim continued work on Dry CLI's handling of streams so that stdout, stderr, and stdin can be injected as command dependencies. That makes commands easier to test while allowing subclasses to retain their own initialize methods. The approach is described as slightly unorthodox but pragmatic: keep framework-level dependencies unobtrusive while improving testability.

Hanami Action: response streaming added

Community and maintainership notes

• Tim updated the individual sponsors listing on the Hanakai sponsors page to reflect 32 sponsors, with plans to automate those updates in future work.

• Adam performed the project's first automated maintainer release, publishing dry-rails v0.8.0. The process completed smoothly and represents a shift toward automated releases handled by additional maintainers.

Small personal notes

Tim made a short trip to Sydney to visit a friend and got sunburnt on a walk between Coogee and Bondi. The visit coincided with a productive burst of maintenance work and inspiration for the Hanami Action streaming change.

Questions raised in community channels

Tim answered Discord questions about advanced ROM associations and array associations on changesets. These are active areas of discussion among maintainers and users.

What this means for users

• If you rely on Dry Monads and upgraded the json gem, update to Dry Monads v1.11.0 to avoid serialization issues.
• If you use Dry CLI and need testing-friendly streams or conditional styling when redirecting output, new styled text features and injectable streams will be useful.
• Hanami Action users can try the new response streaming support and report feedback to the maintainers.
• Rails projects integrating dry-rails should track the v0.8.0 release and the updated Rails compatibility.

Overall, this week focused on compatibility maintenance, practical improvements around streams and styling, and ongoing community-driven releases and automation.