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https://robots.thoughtbot.com/2026-07-10T00:00:00+00:00thoughtbotPast and present thoughtbotters at LRUG this MondayFritz Meissnerhttps://thoughtbot.com/blog/thoughtbot-talk-at-lrug-this-monday2026-07-10T00:00:00+00:002026-07-10T09:08:33Z<p>The <a href="https://lrug.org/meetings/2026/july/">London Ruby User Group’s July meetup</a> is this Monday, 13 July at 6:00pm at GoCardless’s offices near Farringdon and Barbican tube stations.</p>
<p>Former-thoughtbotter Ismael Celis will talk about reactive command-oriented apps in Ruby, followed by me (Fritz Meissner) on fixing long-standing flakiness in Capybara tests, and how AI did and did not help.</p>
<p>There’s an introduction to my talk at <a href="https://thoughtbot.com/blog/what-it-took-to-use-this-overnight-ai-solution">this blog post</a>. At the meetup you can expect more detail on the flaky tests themselves and on the interaction with Claude Code that lead to the breakthrough.</p>
<p>Space is limited to 50 people, so <a href="https://lrug.org/meetings/2026/july/">register on the LRUG site</a> if you’d like to come. If you’re there, come and say hello.</p>
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Come hear Ruby talks by Fritz Meissner and Ismael Celis at the London Ruby User Group meeting on Monday 13th July.true