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I’m currently talking to the machine and it’s not helpful at all

Ever wondered what it would be like if you use your voice to code? Well, me too. I tried 3 tools – with AI and without and these are my findings.
Svenja Schäfer
March 4, 2025
Triangle of Separation

Write code that’s easier to read, remix, and modify by following this trio of principles.
Joël Quenneville
March 3, 2025
- Ruby
- Elm
- Development
- Good Code
How to customize ids in URLs in your Rails app

Override the to_param method on your object to customize how Rails builds the id to put in the URL.
Joël Quenneville
February 10, 2025
- Development
- Web
- Rails
- Ruby
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
- Development
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
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
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
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
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
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
- Rails
- Web
- Development
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