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  1. Turning experience into growth

    You work a full time job shipping features. Use active learning to turn that experience into technical and professional growth.

    Joël Quenneville
    January 27, 2025
    • Learning
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  2. How to infer the form method for custom objects in Rails

    Automatically infer the correct HTTP verb in your Rails forms by defining the persisted? method.

    Joël Quenneville
    January 15, 2025
    • Development
    • Web
    • Rails
    • Ruby
  3. Can AI be used as an accessibility testing partner?

    Explore how AI enhances accessibility testing, its limitations, and why collaboration with human expertise is key to inclusive solutions.

    Moses Amama
    January 10, 2025
    • Accessibility
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  4. Recorded sessions from thoughtbot Open Summit 2024

    Relive thoughtbot’s open source hackathon with a recap and recordings of the live coding sessions and talks. Sessions span Administrate, Belt, FactoryBot, Langchain.rb and more.

    Lindsey Christensen
    January 9, 2025
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  5. Creating static data for your Rails application

    How to create flexible and maintainable static data for your Rails application using static_association.

    Trésor Bireke
    November 22, 2024
    • Ruby On Rails
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  6. Recommending blog posts with artificial intelligence

    We’ve reimplemented our blog’s related article recommendation system using modern artificial intelligence techniques. The system is cheaper, more performant, and produces better results.

    Chad Pytel
    November 21, 2024
    • Artificial Intelligence
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  7. 4 tips when getting started with Hotwire

    A few best practices to keep in mind when getting started with Hotwire and Rails.

    Joël Quenneville
    November 4, 2024
    • Hotwire
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  8. Quickly adding push notifications with Belt

    Learn how to streamline your push notifications setup using Belt.

    Diego Oliveira
    September 18, 2024
    • Belt
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  9. Return an Enumerator When Your Collection Has Multiple Traversals

    When your custom collection has more than one way to be traversed, return Enumerator instead of including Enumerable.

    Joël Quenneville
    August 14, 2024
    • Ruby
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  10. 3 Mental Models For Ruby Enumerators

    Get a better understanding of Ruby enumerators by looking at them from 3 different perspectives.

    Joël Quenneville
    June 5, 2024
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