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Hotwire Essentials is here: Learn Hotwire by building a podcast player

Hotwire Essentials takes you step-by-step through building a functional podcast player and teaches you how to apply Hotwire patterns to solve real-world problems. Learn Turbo’s capabilities, Stimulus controllers, and best practices for server-driven interactivity.
Lindsey Christensen
December 5, 2024
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
thoughtbot approved as UK Crown Commercial G-Cloud 14 supplier

UK public sector organisations can find and contract thoughtbot cloud support services.
Sami Birnbaum
November 28, 2024
- Web
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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
New in our Playbook: Design best practices from a DEI perspective

This DEI design practices guide offers actionable steps to create inclusive, equitable designs that respect diverse users and needs, from ideation to implementation.
Fatima Burke
November 25, 2024
- DEI
- Design
- Playbook
Creating static data for your Rails application

How to create flexible and maintainable static data for your Rails application using static_association.
Trésor Bireke
November 22, 2024
Recommending blog posts with artificial intelligence

We’ve reimplemented our blog’s related article recommendation system using modern artificial intelligence techniques. The system is cheaper, more performant, and produces better results.
Chad Pytel
November 21, 2024
Process slow network requests with Turbo and Active Model

Learn how to build a dynamic loading screen without writing a line of JavaScript.
Steve Polito
November 20, 2024
- Rails
- Ruby
- Web
- Hotwire
Giving to tribal nations

Making investment days open to tribal nations.
Johny Ho
November 19, 2024
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