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AI in Focus: Refactoring Rails with AI tools

Exploring how Github Copilot can help identify and fix Ruby on Rails AntiPatterns, and the challenges of using AI for complex refactoring tasks.
Chad Pytel, Sarah Lima & Kate Young
July 22, 2025
From Rails to JavaScript: A spectrum of integration options

Learn how various approaches to integrating JavaScript with Ruby on Rails present unique affordances towards handling presentational concerns and vary in how they support system requirements.
Valerie Burzynski
July 21, 2025
- Web
- Rails
- JavaScript
- React
- Superglue
Giant Robots Ep 583: Solid Queue with Rosa Gutierrez from 37Signals

Sami goes behind the scenes of Ruby on Rails with Rosa Gutierrez, principle programer at 37Signals, to discover what its like to work on one of the most widely used frameworks out there.
Sami Birnbaum
July 17, 2025
- Podcast
The hard truth about soft deletion

Why soft deletion comes with a higher price than you might think.

Sally Hall
July 16, 2025
A thread-safety gotcha with CurrentAttributes

How memoization inside CurrentAttributes caused user data to leak between requests.
Justin Toniazzo
July 15, 2025
Enough unix to get by

A baseline of commands and concepts that you need to navigate your command-line shell in a professional environment.
Mike Burns
July 14, 2025
- Unix
- Development
Giant Robots Ep 582: Product market fit is the hardest thing with Jon Gamble

Chad dives into a different kind of development with Jon Gamble, CTO of Fordje, as they talk all things city code and construction.
Chad Pytel
July 10, 2025
- Podcast
Giant Robots Ep 581: Crafting Community & Code: Henrique Cardoso on Euruko 2025 & BSPK

Sami talks with Henrique Cardoso about his unified commerce platform BSPK and the challenges of organising a large scale developer conference.
Sami Birnbaum
July 3, 2025
- Podcast
The Bike Shed Ep 467: How to get the most out of attending a conference with Matheus Richard

Joël continues his preparations for the last RailsConf as he talks with Matheus about how to make the most of your time at the conference.
Joël Quenneville and Matheus Richard
July 1, 2025
- Podcast
Giant Robots Ep 580: Taking the complexity out of Toddler's nutrition with Kay Lim

Will gets to grips with nutrition as he talks with Kay Lim, founder of Heartful Sprout, about the importance of feeding our kids right.
Will Larry
June 26, 2025
- Podcast
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