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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
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
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
Why Rails in 2025?

Why should someone starting a new application in 2025 reach for Ruby on Rails?
thoughtbot
January 22, 2025
- Rails
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
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
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
This week in #dev (Nov 29, 2024)

How to check if you’re in a local Rails env and localizing models with Active Model.
thoughtbot
December 10, 2024
- This Week In Dev
- Rails
- TIL
- Tip
On the path to Administrate v1

We’re close to releasing Administrate v1. We’d love it if you could try it out!
Nick Charlton
November 27, 2024
- Rails
- Administrate
Automating barcode scanner tests with Capybara

Implementing barcode scanner tests using Capybara.
Nick Charlton and Silumesii Maboshe
November 26, 2024
- Rails
- Ruby
- Web
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