This week in #dev (Jul 25, 2025)

Welcome to another edition of This Week in #dev, a series of posts where we bring some of our most interesting Slack conversations to the public.

Download the Rails guides as EPUB

Matheus Richard shares that you can download an .epub version of the Rails guides. Now you can read them offline on your e-reader or phone! Here’s where you can find that download link.

An easy way to let Copilot see your changes

Jimmy Thigpen learned about using the variable #changes in GitHub Copilot chat to refer to your current changes. You can use that instead of asking it to git diff or git status.

Thanks

This edition was brought to you by Jimmy Thigpen and Matheus Richard. Thanks to all contributors! 🎉

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