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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
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
A thread-safety gotcha with CurrentAttributes

How memoization inside CurrentAttributes caused user data to leak between requests.
Justin Toniazzo
July 15, 2025
Prevent logging sensitive information in Rails, and beyond

The Rails defaults are a good foundation, but it’s still your responsibility to filter sensitive information from logs when using external APIs, services, and tools.
Steve Polito
June 10, 2025
- Rails
- Web
- Security
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
Building Strong Rails Teams: Join our hiring roundtable

June 18 at 12pm ET - Join thoughtbot CEO Chad Pytel for a candid roundtable on hiring senior Rails developers, with a focus on fairness, speed, and culture add.
Lindsey Christensen
June 5, 2025
- News
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- Leadership
- Hiring
- Rails
Do you really know how to ORDER BY?

The perils of a seemingly harmless ORDER BY clause.
Thiago Araújo Silva
June 2, 2025
- Rails
- SQL
- PostgreSQL
Let Rails Help You

Rails gives you the tools to build custom features that still feel native.
Matheus Richard
May 27, 2025
- Rails
- Ruby
NWRUG's (Manchester, UK) May 2025 Meeting — Rails AntiPatterns Revisited

Rediscover Rails AntiPatterns with Chad Pytel at NWRUG this week.
Rob Whittaker
May 12, 2025
- Rails
- Refactor
- Ruby
- Community
- Events
Developing a voice AI app in Rails for drive-through ordering

In this post we will explore the code for an AI assistant in our application.
Jose Blanco
May 6, 2025
- Artificial Intelligence
- Rails
- Openai
- Action Cable
- Websocket
- Realtime
- AI
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