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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
Turning experience into growth

You work a full time job shipping features. Use active learning to turn that experience into technical and professional growth.
Joël Quenneville
January 27, 2025
- Learning
- Development
Introducing the Noisy Animals kata

The Noisy Animals kata is designed to help developers think about the process of improving bad code.
Fritz Meissner
January 24, 2025
- Refactoring
- Ruby
A Product Manager's guide to 2025

A landscape founded by people who continuously push boundaries and move forward, it’s never a dull year in the realms of Product Management. In 2025, expect change, technological advancements, shifting consumer expectations, and new market dynamics.
Bethan Ashley
January 23, 2025
Why Rails in 2025?

Why should someone starting a new application in 2025 reach for Ruby on Rails?
Aji Slater
January 22, 2025
- Rails
What happens when we misuse refactoring in conversation?

Refactoring is essential for software teams to remain effective, but the concept is often misused in conversation to describe work that is not refactoring. Here are some thoughts on what goes wrong when we do this.
Fritz Meissner
January 21, 2025
Chicken Accessories For Chickens

How a weird product ruined my brain for a week.
Luke Mitchell
January 17, 2025
Superglue 1.0: React ❤️ Rails. A new era of thoughtfulness

Superglue 1.0 is released! Learn about pairing Rails and React and why being thoughtful matters.
Johny Ho
January 15, 2025
- Ruby
- Web
- Ruby On Rails
- React
- Redux
- JavaScript
- Hotwire
- Stimulus
- Turbo
How to infer the form method for custom objects in Rails

Automatically infer the correct HTTP verb in your Rails forms by defining the persisted? method.
Joël Quenneville
January 15, 2025
- Development
- Web
- Rails
- Ruby
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