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  1. Seeds...of Destruction! 🌱 ➡️ 💥

    Untested seeds can grow into giant, crushing vines.

    Louis Antonopoulos
    March 5, 2025
    • Ruby
    • Rails
    • Ruby On Rails
    • Testing
    • Development
  2. Zero-downtime with Rails credentials part III

    Transitioning the codebase from using environment variables to Rails Credentials for Zero-Downtime Deploys.

    Sami Birnbaum and Valeria Graffeo
    February 25, 2025
    • Ruby
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    • Credentials
    • Environment Variables
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    • Zero Downtime With Rails Credentials
  3. How to customize ids in URLs in your Rails app

    Override the to_param method on your object to customize how Rails builds the id to put in the URL.

    Joël Quenneville
    February 10, 2025
    • Development
    • Web
    • Rails
    • Ruby
  4. 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
    • Artificial Intelligence
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  5. This week in #dev (Jan 24, 2025)

    Avoiding ReDoS attacks, using Active Resource in modern Rails, and how to improve flaky tests with Playwright.

    thoughtbot
    February 3, 2025
    • This Week In Dev
    • TIL
    • Security
    • Testing
    • Rails
  6. Build a (progressively enhanced) drawer component with Hotwire

    You can get 90% of the way there with server-rendered templates and View Transitions.

    Steve Polito
    January 28, 2025
    • Rails
    • Hotwire
    • Web
  7. Why Rails in 2025?

    Why should someone starting a new application in 2025 reach for Ruby on Rails?

    Aji Slater
    January 22, 2025
    • Rails
  8. How to infer the form method for custom objects in Rails

    Automatically infer the correct HTTP verb in your Rails forms by defining the persisted? method.

    Joël Quenneville
    January 15, 2025
    • Development
    • Web
    • Rails
    • Ruby
  9. Zero-downtime with Rails credentials part II

    Transitioning the codebase from using environment variables to Rails Credentials for Zero-Downtime Deploys.

    Sami Birnbaum and Valeria Graffeo
    December 18, 2024
    • Ruby
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    • Credentials
    • Environment Variables
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    • Zero Downtime With Rails Credentials
  10. Turbo morphing woes

    Morphing is cool, but it can break your JavaScript. Here are some of the problems of using it and how to work around them.

    Matheus Richard
    December 11, 2024
    • Hotwire
    • Rails
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