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AI in Focus: Refactoring Rails with AI tools

Exploring how Github Copilot can help identify and fix Ruby on Rails AntiPatterns, and the challenges of using AI for complex refactoring tasks.
Chad Pytel, Sarah Lima & Kate Young
July 22, 2025
Building a Rails Feature with AI and Active Job

Exploring how structured function calls to an LLM can replace a dedicated CRM enrichment service in thoughtbot’s internal Rails app.
Chad Pytel and Kate Young
June 9, 2025
- AI
- Rails
- TDD
- Language Models
- Llm
- Large Language Models
AI in Focus: Connecting DeepSeek to Rails

Experimenting with a locally running version of the DeepSeek R1 LLM model in a real Rails app using Ollama and ruby-openai.
Chad Pytel and Kate Young
April 24, 2025
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- Language Models
- Ollama
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- Large Language Models
Connecting Deepseek to Rails plus more upcoming AI livestreams

thoughtbot continues AI in Focus weekly livestreams starting February 2025. In the first session, Chad Pytel will teach you how to connect Deepseek to your Rails app.
Lindsey Christensen
February 4, 2025
LLMs can read text: Overlooked AI-assisted coding techniques

We can do a lot more than generate one line of code at a time with large language models. Here are some other “LLM for coding” ideas.
Fritz Meissner
November 1, 2024
This week in #dev (Aug 23, 2024)

Using constraints in Postgres and querying LLMs in the terminal.
thoughtbot
September 2, 2024
Get consistent data from your LLM with JSON Schema

How to parse content from a tool that is made to speak in human sentences.
Rémy Hannequin
February 13, 2024
How not to deploy an LLM

We’ve experimented internally with LLMs on different aspects and I got into a rabbit hole no-one should fall into.
George Kosmopoulos
February 7, 2024
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