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NWRUG's February 2025 Meeting (20 February)

It will soon be NWRUG’s February 2025 meet-up on Thursday, 20 February.
Rob Whittaker
February 12, 2025
- Community
- Events
- Manchester
- Meetup
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New Livestream Recording - Where can healthcare best use AI?

Chad Pytel recently joined Steven Wardell’s Digital Health Investor Talk series to discuss how healthcare can best use AI. If you missed it, the session recording is now live.
Kelly Gebo
February 11, 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
My note-taking system gives me constant content ideas

I create a lot but never run out of ideas. Part of my secret is the note-taking system I use.
Joël Quenneville
February 6, 2025
- Conferences
Interrogate your experience with a mindmap

Turn vague experience into concrete takeaways by using a mindmap.
Joël Quenneville
February 5, 2025
- Writing
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
Reasons not to refactor

Refactoring is great and most developers should refactor more, but there are times when it is not appropriate. Ironically, if you’re aware of these, you may find yourself refactoring even more often than before.
Fritz Meissner
February 4, 2025
- Refactoring
- Good Code
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
Things you might not need in your tests

Your test suite is slow and flaky because it does too much.
Matheus Richard
January 29, 2025
- Testing
- Performance
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
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