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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
- Events
- 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
Sorting elegantly in Rails with in_order_of

Sorting columns in custom order in Rails elegantly using inorderof.
Trésor Bireke
April 28, 2025
- Ruby
- Rails
- SQL
- Performance
- Code
Don't Steal a Penguin -- A Guide to Rails Flashes

If someone tries to steal a penguin, how should you warn them?
Louis Antonopoulos
April 25, 2025
- Ruby
- Rails
- Ruby On Rails
- Development
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
- AI
- Ethics
- Product
- Language Models
- Ollama
- Rails
- Llm
- Large Language Models
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