Skip to main content
thoughtbot thoughtbot
  • Live on Twitch!

    thoughtbot is livestreaming

    Work alongside the thoughtbot team as we collaborate with each other and our clients, live. Ask us anything, we're live right now!

  • Case Studies
  • Blog
  • Let’s Talk
Live on Twitch!

thoughtbot is livestreaming

Work alongside the thoughtbot team as we collaborate with each other and our clients, live. Ask us anything, we're live right now!

Let’s get started!
View all Services
Development
  • Ruby on Rails
  • Hotwire
  • AI and Machine Learning
  • Maintenance
  • Mobile
Design
  • Discovery Sprints
  • UX, UI, and Product Design
  • Design Systems
Product
  • MVP
  • Product Management
  • Accessibility
Team and Processes
  • Team Augmentation
  • Fractional Leadership
View all Services
View all Resources
Development
  • Tech Leadership Resources
  • Open Source
  • Books
  • The Bike Shed Podcast
  • Live Streaming on YouTube
  • Conference Talks
The business of great software
  • Playbook
  • Purpose Built
  • Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots Podcast
  • Design Sprint Guide
  • Live Streaming on LinkedIn
View all Resources

Development Articles

Written by thoughtbot, your expert partner for design and development.

    • All Topics
    • Design
    • Development
    • Product
    • More topics
  1. How to use ngrok and Ollama to access a local LLM remotely

    Use ngrok to securely expose your local Ollama instance to the internet, making it accessible from anywhere.

    Jose Blanco
    March 11, 2025
    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Ollama
    • Ngrok
    • Llm
    • AI
    • Development
  2. Seeds...of Destruction! 🌱 ➡️ 💥

    Untested seeds can grow into giant, crushing vines.

    Louis Antonopoulos
    March 5, 2025
    • Ruby
    • Rails
    • Ruby On Rails
    • Testing
    • Development
  3. 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
    • Voice Coding
    • Artificial Intelligence
    • DevTools
    • Development
    • Accessibility
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Compliance
    • User Experience
    • Product Design
    • Design
    • Development
  9. 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
    • Open Source
    • Development
    • Community
  10. 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
    • Development
    • Web
  11. Sign up to receive a weekly recap from thoughtbot

    Looking for even more ways to stay connected?
    RSS feed icon Check out our feeds
« First ‹ Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Next › Last »

Footer

thoughtbot
  • Services
  • Case Studies
  • Resources
  • Let's Talk
  • Our Company
  • Careers
  • Purpose
  • Blog
  • Sponsor
  • Mastodon
  • Bluesky
  • GitHub
  • YouTube
  • Twitch
  • Feeds
© 2025 thoughtbot, inc.

The design of a robot and thoughtbot are registered trademarks of thoughtbot, inc.

  • US: +1 (877) 9-ROBOTS
  • UK: +44 (0)20 3807 0560
  • Beware of fraudulent thoughtbot job listings Learn more
  • Code of Conduct
  • Accessibility Statement
  • Privacy Policy