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Event sourcing for smooth brains: building a basic event-driven system in Rails
Event sourcing is a jargon filled mess, but we can build a lean version with just ActiveRecord, callbacks, and a bit of boring Rails code

June 2023

Boring Rails Meetup - Chicago - July 13
Join us for a casual hang-out with other Ruby on Rails developers in Chicago

January 2023

Writing better Action Mailers: revisiting a core Rails concept
Mailers are used in literally every Rails application, but often an after thought where we throw out the rules of software design. Revisiting the tools…

November 2022

Do we need RSpec?
Matt and Justin talk about RSpec and testing DSLs and try to answer the question "do we need them?"
Do we need small user stories?
Matt and David Copeland talk about small user stories and try to answer the question "do we need them?"
Do we need staging servers?
Matt and Justin talk about staging servers and try to answer the question "do we need them?"
Do we need detailed commit messages?
Hey!

August 2022

Thinking in Hotwire: Progressive Enhancement
Your mental model for Hotwire should be progressive enhancement: use the least amount of the tooling as possible to achieve your desired outcome

July 2022

Hotwire Summer: Galaxy brain CSS tricks for Hotwire
Techniques that will make you say "wait..you did that with only CSS?!"
Hotwire Summer: Adding keyboard shortcuts and hotkeys to StimulusJS
A review of the ecosystem for adding hotkeys to your Stimulus controllers: stimulus-hotkeys, stimulus-use/useHotkeys, HotKey.js, and @github/hotkey

June 2022

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