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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
Faster feedback loops with Rails Runner

Don’t waste one more second coding in the Rails console.
Steve Polito
April 17, 2025
- Rails
- Web
How to respect OpenAI's rate limits in Rails

As it turns out, OpenAI’s rate limits are a little more complicated than other APIs.
Steve Polito
April 10, 2025
Avoiding N+1 queries the Railsy way with strict loading

Need to catch N+1 queries without adding any extra dependencies to your project? Strict Loading makes it effortless, but your configurations need to be set up correctly to avoid unexpected behaviors.
Trésor Bireke
April 7, 2025
- Ruby
- Rails
- Refactoring
- Development
How fast can an ActiveRecord SQL query run?

You have a SQL query that seems like it needs to be faster. What’s the upper-bound on improving that query’s performance?
Fritz Meissner
March 31, 2025
Ruby on Rails agency in London

Where can you find top Ruby on Rails developers in London? Hint: it isn’t a new AI tool. Real life thoughtbot developers have been helping clients in London for decades.
Valeria Graffeo
March 28, 2025
- Ruby
- Rails
- London
- Agency
- Developers
- Ruby On Rails
- Uk
Using the Presenter Pattern in Ruby on Rails

The presenter pattern is a handy design approach that sits between your views and models, helping you keep your code organized by handling view-specific logic in a clean and maintainable way. Let’s explore how to use it you your rails app.
Trésor Bireke
March 25, 2025
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