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Prepare to Fundraise: A new playbook from thoughtbot and Forecastr

thoughtbot has teamed up with Forecastr to help you with the two most important topics to investors: your product-market fit and financial strategy. Learn more in our new playbook.
Lindsey Christensen
April 18, 2024
- Founder
- Startup
- News
- Validation
DevOps Events and Conferences for 2024

We’ve organized info on more than 60 DevOps events around the world so you can find the best topics and location for you. Check out all the amazing opportunities to connect virtually or in person at all skill levels.
Victoria Guido
April 17, 2024
- DevOps
- Events
Enum validations and database constraints in Rails 7.1

How to add model validation for a column using a PostgreSQL enum type in Rails 7.1.
Sally Hall
April 16, 2024
- Web
- Rails
- Active Record
- Databases
- Validation
- Enum
Faster Tests With Capybara and Request Specs

System specs are cool, but can be slow and flaky. Request specs can be good enough if you add the right seasoning to them.
Matheus Richard
April 15, 2024
- Rails
- Testing
- Capybara
Upcoming Talks at Ruby Conferences in Spring and Summer 2024

Join us in anticipating exciting talks for spring and summer of 2024. Discover new lessons, shared experiences and breakthroughs from senior and principal thoughtbot developers!
Elyse Hadid
April 12, 2024
- Rails
- Ruby
- JavaScript
- Testing
- Turbo
- Events
- Growth
- Mobile
- Conferences
- Community
Watch a live pitch deck review on April 22

Registration is open for our live pitch deck review session for Hera Fertility on April 22. Learn more about the event and sign up to attend.
Lindsey Christensen
April 11, 2024
- Founder
- Startup
- News
Incubator Update 3: Dionna & Danyelle at Womanish

The key takeaway from this exercise, for me, was that some of these questions were truly hard to answer at first - but this was good news! The questions we initially struggled to answer shined a light on research we still needed to do.
Daniel Garcia
April 10, 2024
Introducing form_props: The power of Rails forms now available for React!

We’ve built form_props, a powerful Rails form helper to use with React.
Johny Ho
April 10, 2024
- Ruby
- Web
- Ruby On Rails
- JSON
- Superglue
- Jbuilder
Does thoughtbot Offer AI-Assisted Programming?

Someone recently asked if thoughtbot had a reduced rate for cyborgs. This article explores the concept of whether the use of generative AI creates more or less work for developers.
Ran Craycraft
April 9, 2024
- Machine Learning
- Artificial Intelligence
On Feedback

How can we give better feedback to each other?
Rob Whittaker
April 8, 2024
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