Thoughtbot

Bethan Ashley 10 Jun 2026 4 min read

Stop. Right now, stop reading and take 2 minutes. Draw how to make toast. That’s it. No further instruction. No clarification. Just those words on repeat. “Draw how to make toast.” The moment you say it, something interesting happens. Everyone stops. Instantly engaged. Then the questions start. “What do you mean?” “Can I use a pencil?” “Do you want steps?”…

Valeria Graffeo 9 Jun 2026 4 min read

So one day a client came to me and said: “we want a Chrome extension.” Simple enough, right? First thing to know: the client didn’t want to build a real extension from scratch with its own codebase and logic. They wanted a wrapper, essentially their existing Rails app, dressed up and living inside a Chrome extension panel. Same features, same…

Daniel Garcia 8 Jun 2026 10 min read

As AI-assisted software development becomes more widely adopted, more of the Ruby code in our Rails apps is being written by agents. Each team has its own conventions for how that code should look and behave, and we want those conventions enforced automatically rather than relying on the agent to remember them on its own. This is part of a…

Jared Turner 3 Jun 2026 1 min read

Our blog posts now have the option to Copy as Markdown to help our robotic friends more easily consume our content. (It’s just up there, below the title) Click the button and you will get this blog post copied to your clipboard in cleanly formatted Markdown. Then paste it into any prompt to give your AI the context it needs.…