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A JavaScript developer's guide to Rails: ActiveRecord Fundamentals

Learn how Rails ActiveRecord differs from JavaScript ORMs and why the database-first approach eliminates boilerplate.
Will Larry
February 4, 2026
- Web
- Best Practices
- Ruby
- Rails
- JavaScript
- Development
A JavaScript developer's guide to Rails: What does Composition Over Inheritance mean?

Rails framework code is full of inheritance magic, but your application code doesn’t have to be. Learn how composition makes dependencies explicit, testing easier, and debugging a breeze—using patterns you already know from JavaScript.
Will Larry
January 28, 2026
- Web
- Best Practices
- Ruby
- Rails
- JavaScript
- Development
A JavaScript developer's guide to Rails: Where Does Everything Come From?

Discover where Rails methods come from and solve the biggest confusion JavaScript developers face when learning Rails.
Will Larry
January 21, 2026
- Web
- Best Practices
- Ruby
- Rails
- JavaScript
- Development
- Learning
Code audits in the days of AI - A new Claude skill

Run a code audit on your Rails app using thoughtbot’s best practices with this new Claude skill.
Jose Blanco
January 20, 2026
A JavaScript Developer's Guide to Rails - Series Introduction

Where does current_user come from? Why is there no import? A series for JavaScript developers learning Rails.
Will Larry
January 14, 2026
- Rails
- JavaScript
- Development
- Learning
The Arrange/Act/Assert pattern

Organizing tests for readability.
Justin Toniazzo
December 16, 2025
- Testing
- Development
- Ruby
- Rails
Testing is software engineering

Skimping on tests doesn’t speed you up; it just leaves you flying blind.
Justin Toniazzo
December 15, 2025
- Testing
- Development
Git 3.0 will use main as the default branch

A quiet but important milestone for Git.
Justin Toniazzo
November 24, 2025
- Development
- Git
- News
How to use LLMs without driving your team mad

Three AI anti-patterns that consistently frustrate development teams, and how to avoid them.
Jimmy Thigpen
November 17, 2025
How to design a join code system

Learn the ins and outs of building a game-based join code feature.
Steve Polito
November 10, 2025
- Web
- Development
- Design
- Rails
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