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What happens when you stop maintaining your Rails application?

Here are the risks and common scenarios we see when a team doesn’t have a plan for ongoing maintenance for their Rails application. We also share how we support clients in these situations with our new, flexible, Rails Maintenance offering.
Jeanine Soterwood
November 21, 2022
- Good Code
- TDD
- Testing
- Rails
- Web
- Technical Debt
Building an Alexa Skill in Arabic with Ruby

More detail on how the thoughtbot team built one of the first Alexa skills in Arabic, and what we learned about using Ruby on Rails to support the development of Alexa Skills in the process.
Fritz Meissner, Sami Birnbaum & Kelly Gebo
November 18, 2022
Site-wide configuration with Administrate

Adding site-wide configuration with a Rails model can be quite easy to do with Administrate.
Nick Charlton
November 17, 2022
- Rails
- Administrate
Data Modeling Resources in Elm

Links to some of the best Elm data modeling resources around the web.
Joël Quenneville
November 15, 2022
- Elm
- Good Code
Automate manual deployments with Git and binstubs

Your team’s manual deployment process doesn’t have to be so manual. Here’s how we automated our team’s deployment process with a few lines of bash and basic Git knowledge.
Steve Polito
November 14, 2022
- Git
- Web
- Shell
- Automation
thoughtbot approved as UK Crown Commercial G-Cloud 13 supplier

UK public sector organisations can find and contract thoughtbot cloud support services.
Kirsten Hurley
November 11, 2022
- DevOps
- SRE
- GCloud 13
Product Management Ask Me Anything - Event recap

Summarizing all the gems shared by our PM team on product strategy and great teamwork.
Kelly Gebo
November 4, 2022
- Product Management
- Events
Making changes safely at scale

Move fast but don’t break things.
Thom Carter
November 3, 2022
- Web
- Ruby
- Rails
Moving Beyond, Not Getting Over, Imposter Syndrome

Let’s move away from individual responsibility, and towards collective and systemic accountability.
Stephanie Minn
November 2, 2022
- DEI
- Inclusion
- Culture
- Learning
- Teams
Do Not Use Obliques in Arabic

The history of obliques/italic fonts, and why you shouldn’t use them in Arabic-based texts.
Rami Taibah
November 1, 2022
- Typography
- Design
- Arabic
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