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Sorting elegantly in Rails with in_order_of

Sorting columns in custom order in Rails elegantly using inorderof.
Trésor Bireke
April 28, 2025
- Ruby
- Rails
- SQL
- Performance
- Code
Learn what you can, then move on

Dealing with the effects of a wrong decision.
Justin Toniazzo
April 28, 2025
Don't Steal a Penguin -- A Guide to Rails Flashes

If someone tries to steal a penguin, how should you warn them?
Louis Antonopoulos
April 25, 2025
- Ruby
- Rails
- Ruby On Rails
- Development
Giant Robots Ep 571: Space, Software, and Surprises with Rémy Hannequin

Sami and fellow thoughtboter Rémy look to the stars as they talk all things astronomical.
Sami Birnbaum
April 24, 2025
- Podcast
AI in Focus: Connecting DeepSeek to Rails

Experimenting with a locally running version of the DeepSeek R1 LLM model in a real Rails app using Ollama and ruby-openai.
Chad Pytel and Kate Young
April 24, 2025
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- Ollama
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AI for Business: AI and automation

The basics on how to leverage automation and AI to deliver value for your customers.
Ferdia Kenny
April 23, 2025
How to build and scale high-performing engineering teams - virtual event

Join us May 7 for a live session with our CEO Chad Pytel as he shares lessons from two decades of helping tech leaders build high-performing teams and opens the floor for conversation with peers navigating similar challenges.
Lindsey Christensen
April 22, 2025
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The Bike Shed Ep 460: Programer Productivity with Valerie Burzynski

Start taking notes in this episode as Joël and Valerie discuss the different ways in which they structure their note taking systems to improve their workflows.
Joël Quenneville
April 22, 2025
- Podcast
Between immutability and memoization, you might have to choose

It is not always possible to have frozen AND performant objects in Ruby.
Rémy Hannequin
April 22, 2025
- Ruby
- Performance
Making the case for Rails monoliths over microservices

A cautionary tale of a CTO and microservices. Here are some considerations that should be made before splitting a Rails monolith.
Sara Jackson
April 21, 2025
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