Here is a human curated list of repositories and projects that piqued my interest.
RubyUI: Frontend Innovation for Rails
RubyUI brings fresh energy to the Rails ecosystem with its expressive UI component toolkit built on Phlex. It's exciting to see frontend innovation happening in the Rails world, providing developers with modern component-based approaches while maintaining Ruby's DX friendly syntax.
Cursor Rules: AI-Driven Development Conventions
The awesome-cursorrules repository offers an interesting approach to AI development augmentation. This dotfile configuration for Cursor establishes project and organization-specific conventions. As teams increasingly adopt AI-assisted development tools like Augment.code and GitHub Copilot, this standardized approach to configuration could become widely adopted across multiple platforms.
Higress: Enterprise-Grade AI Gateway
Enterprise applications face unique challenges when interfacing with LLMs in production environments. Alibaba's Higress addresses this by functioning as an AI gateway between applications/agents and large language models. Built on Envoy, it provides a consistent interface to downstream LLMs, simplifying integration and management for enterprise deployments.
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React in Rails, One Component at a Time
It seems like we should be able to drop React components into our views on an ad hoc basis using Stimulus, which is exactly what we will do.
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A Near Miss: How I Froze My Website by Adding a Generated Column
Do avoid freezing your database, don't create a generated column. Add a nullable column, a trigger to update its value, and a job to backfill old data.
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The Programmer's Obsession: Lessons from Monica Geller's Light Switch
If you're wondering if you'd make a good software engineer, ask yourself how much you're like Monica from Friends.
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