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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
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
Superglue 2.0 Alpha: React ♥️ Rails Turbo Streams!

Superglue 2.0 incoming! Bringing the power of Rails Turbo Streams to React.
Johny Ho
September 17, 2025
- Ruby
- Web
- Ruby On Rails
- React
- Redux
- JavaScript
- Hotwire
- Stimulus
- Turbo
Upcoming JavaScript and React Conferences for 2025

The year’s not over yet — there’s plenty of JavaScript events ahead for those looking to learn, connect, and grow with the community.
Diego Oliveira and Jimmy Thigpen
September 1, 2025
- React
- React Native
- JavaScript
- Events
- Growth
- Mobile
- Conferences
From Rails to JavaScript: A spectrum of integration options

Learn how various approaches to integrating JavaScript with Ruby on Rails present unique affordances towards handling presentational concerns and vary in how they support system requirements.
Valerie Burzynski
July 21, 2025
- Web
- Rails
- JavaScript
- React
- Superglue
When AI doesn't help!

ChatGPT ran out of ideas when its suggestion didn’t work. How do you solve a problem when AI can’t?
Rakesh Arunachalam
June 23, 2025
This week in #dev (May 16, 2025)

JavaScript floating-point precision quirk, using .rb files for translations, and Rails’ all_day method.
thoughtbot
May 30, 2025
Superglue 1.0: React ❤️ Rails. A new era of thoughtfulness

Superglue 1.0 is released! Learn about pairing Rails and React and why being thoughtful matters.
Johny Ho
January 15, 2025
- Ruby
- Web
- Ruby On Rails
- React
- Redux
- JavaScript
- Hotwire
- Stimulus
- Turbo
Running AI client-side

Running AI client-side is a great way to provide privacy and save costs. Learn how to do it and when it is useful.
Matheus Richard
September 17, 2024
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