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How I Built a Chrome Extension Wrapper (and Everything That Tried to Stop Me)

Sharing my experience building a Chrome extension wrapper around a Rails app: the hard-won expertise, the rabbit holes, and everything I’d do differently.
Valeria Graffeo
June 9, 2026
Enforcing Your Ruby Style Guide on AI-Generated Code

A Rails-flavored guide to wrapping Claude Code in the checks, conventions, and feedback loops that make agent output more trustworthy.
Daniel Garcia
June 8, 2026
The output must be cleaned (with skill)

A Claude skill for the noisy RSpec output you’ve always wanted to clean up.
Jared Turner
May 6, 2026
- Rails
- RSpec
- Skills
Reviewing Dependabot PRs is boring. Let Claude do it for you.

A Claude skill to do the boring stuff for us.
Jose Blanco
April 30, 2026
- Artificial Intelligence
- Rails
- Review
- Claude
- AI
- Development
- Skills
- Dependabot
Human vs Machine: the Bug

Sally fixes a bug without AI, then invites Claude to try.
Sally Hall
April 22, 2026
- AI
- Claude
- Rails
- Debugging
AI in Focus: A new Claude Skill for Rails code audits

Learn what happened when Chad installed the open source rails-audit-thoughtbot Claude skill, ran it on thoughtbot’s decade-old internal Hub app, and walked through hits, misses, and how we’d tighten the skill over time.
Chad Pytel and Kate Young
April 13, 2026
Enhancing job reliability with Sidekiq Pro's super fetch strategy

Explores how the core Sidekiq fetch behavior has the potential to lead to loss of job data and how the super fetch strategy provided by Sidekiq Pro can resolve this.
Valerie Burzynski
March 30, 2026
- Sidekiq
- Rails
Claude Skill incoming! Generating Postman collections with AI

When speed matters more than perfection, API documentation can quickly become a bottleneck. In this post, I share how we used thoughtbot’s Claude Skill to generate Postman collections directly from a Rails codebase.
Sami Birnbaum
March 9, 2026
- Artificial Intelligence
- Rails
- Claude
- AI
- Development
- API
Your chat bot needs a better rate limit strategy

Don’t let one ambitious user trigger a denial of service.
Steve Polito
March 2, 2026
- Rails
- Web
- Development
- Artificial Intelligence
- Llm
- Chat Bot
A JavaScript developer's guide to Rails: Authorization with Pundit

Learn how Pundit authorization actually works in Rails, from request flow to policy scopes, with practical examples for JavaScript developers.
Will Larry
February 18, 2026
- Rails
- Authorization
- Pundit
- Ruby
- Policies
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