Week 47 - Sweet Streams, Turbo considered harmful?, and more!
Process slow network requests with Turbo and Active Model - Steve Polito demonstrates on the thoughbot blog how to enhance user experience in Rails applications by offloading slow network requests to background jobs and utilizing Turbo for asynchronous updates.
Meetup Recording: Hotwire Native: Turn Your Rails App into a Mobile App - Yaroslav Shmarov gave a talk at the Paris.rb November 2024 Meetup and the recording is now available on YouTube and RubyVideo.
Meetup Recording: Leveling Up Developer Tooling for the Modern Rails & Hotwire Era - Marco Roth gave a talk at the Ruby Türkiye November 2024 Meetup and the recording is now available on YouTube and RubyVideo.
Sweet Streams - Jonathan Greenberg discusses building a prototype application at Flagrant that processes complex documents and generates plain English summaries using Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). It also incorporates real-time streaming of AI-generated responses to the user interface using ActionCable and Turbo Streams.
Livestream Recording: Hotwire Native Live Coding - Joe Masilotti offers a comprehensive live walkthrough on building Hotwire Native apps for iOS and Android. Starting with a Rails-based hiking journal app, Joe demonstrates how to create native mobile experiences by integrating Hotwire Native with minimal code. The session covers the setup process, configuring navigators, and routing with local development servers, highlighting how Hotwire Native simplifies combining web-powered functionality with native app frameworks.
