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Faster feedback loops with Rails Runner

Don’t waste one more second coding in the Rails console.
Steve Polito
April 17, 2025
- Rails
- Web
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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
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
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
Superglue 1.0: React ❤️ Rails. A new era of thoughtfulness

Superglue 1.0 is released! Learn about pairing Rails and React and why being thoughtful matters.
Johny Ho
January 15, 2025
- Ruby
- Web
- Ruby On Rails
- React
- Redux
- JavaScript
- Hotwire
- Stimulus
- Turbo
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
thoughtbot is a certified Prismic partner

After using Prismic on our site, and recommending it to our clients, we are proud to announce our certification as a Prismic Partner. This blog talks about strengths we bring to complex Prismic sites, and the benefits their tool has provided our team.
Kelly Gebo
January 7, 2025
- Web
- Marketing
- Design
- Partner
Testing SQL queries in a Ruby service

An epic journey of facing MSSQL and missing Rails.
Sally Hall
December 16, 2024
- SQL
- Testing
- Stories
- Ruby
- Web
Why should I avoid regular expressions?

Regular expressions are wondrous, but they’re ill-suited for many tasks; parsers are often more reliable.
Summer ☀️
December 13, 2024
- Regex
- Ruby
- Security
- Web
Stop aiming for compliance: Craft a better product strategy instead

Have you been shuffling accessibility compliance all around your roadmap this year? Here are 5 ways to integrate it as a practice to supercharge your product strategy instead.
Caro Sotillo Silva
November 29, 2024

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