Resources
Insights from our team of senior engineers, product strategists, and industry experts.
Engineering Insights
What Is Agentic Development? A Guide for Technical Leaders
What is agentic development? A guide for technical leaders on how AI agents write production code, key tools like Cursor, and how to evaluate development partners.
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Turbo-powered Dynamic Fields
Render parts of your views so your users get the right options at the right times, and do it with as little front-end effort as necessary.
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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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Compliance Gotcha With Hotwire
Prefetching and user privacy are fundamentally at odds. Make sure to use sensible defaults to protect your user's data.
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Two Tips for Reusable UI with Stimulus
Two issues we ran into implementing a library of reusable components with Stimulus, and how we worked around them.
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Hotwire Native: Building Bridges
A three part series exploring development with Hotwire Native
Product Insights
Repo Roundup August 4th, 2025
Weekly human curated list of new, interesting and noteworthy projects.
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Hotwire Native: Zero to Mobile Hero
A three part series exploring development with Hotwire Native
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Probability and Statistics for Software Engineers
An intro using examples relevant to software engineers and techniques that don't require you to memorize anything
Product Insights
Repo Roundup July 21st
Weekly human curated list of new, interesting and noteworthy projects.
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