Update (January 8, 2025): When I originally wrote this article the behaviour described in it was not official. But, I also opened two PRs: one to add a test to Turbo that validates the behaviour an...

The point Best practices earn their name by being used with success by many people in many different situations. Over many attempts, on average, they worked better than other practices. Hence the ...

Update 2024-04-09: Added a second tutorial on using breakpoints. This is an introduction tutorial to Ruby debugging, inside the ruby debugger itself. The instructions are woven through the code so...

When working on projects with other developers you might (like me) find yourself wanting to customize the project console in a way that’s not useful as a default but it is useful for you. And ideal...

Turbo’s morphing feature can look magical. There’s a lot of pieces moving behind the scenes to make it come alive. That’s great when it works but when it doesn’t you might be left staring at the sc...

Test factories are a widely used tool for writing automated tests. The other main alternative are test fixtures but here I am assuming you are using factories. I have extensively used both over man...

I read the book “Tidy First?” by Kent Beck and it got me thinking in ways both enjoyable and productive. I’m approaching it from the position of an experienced Ruby developer, because that is my ...

I am writing this for the senior engineer or tech lead that is deciding whether to use Hotwire or a Frontend framework (e.g. React, Vue, Svelte …) for the frontend portion of the next Rails project...

Radan here. This is a guest post by Miha. He’s been using Hotwire tools for a while on his side projects Visualizer and ECT Business. For a recent feature enhancement he did he made extenstive use ...

This is part 2 of the deep dive into how Turbo 8 morphing works. Part 1 covered the backend code and Turbo’s plumbing around idiomorph and this article focuses on the idiomorph’s algorithm and how ...