Rails 8.1 introduced a local CI setup and run script that allows you to leverage the power of your local system to run a series of steps and optionally integrate with GitHub to sign off on pull requests that have a successful CI run.

In this demo, I mainly point out how to access the Braille Access settings within VoiceOver Utility, point out one difference between iOS/Mac Braille Access, correct my statement aoubt UEB not being on the Mac/Braille Access (which it is), and my my finding of a nifty short-cut for working with BRF files on the Mac inside in the Braille Access menu.For a good review of Braille Access, listen to my last podcast. Woody

Why do people often fail to learn from mistakes? As a leader or mentor, how do you ensure folks understand the consequences of their actions and improve?

How should you adapt to a new manager? What should you discuss at your first one-on-one?

In this demo, I give you a quick glimpse as it were in to the wonders smile of using the BI40X on the Mac with VoiceOver. Once Mac os 2026 hits, expect a lot more Braille (Brailiant etc) demos.

In this episode, we will be looking at pattern matching in Ruby which lets you check the structure of data and save parts of it into variables.

The Rails Authentication generator is getting new test helpers. We'll take a look at how to use them with integration tests and how to extend them to work with system tests too.

Enumerable provides a suite of sorting, filtering, iterating functionality to any collection class in Ruby. It's easy to implement and use, so let's see how to use it.

To provide clean integrations with Rails plugins, we can use lazy load hooks to add callbacks for when classes are loaded.

Learn how to use the CodeMirror editor in your browser using Importmaps.

In this episode, we discuss why and how to differentiate product and technology.

Rails 8 introduces a new expect method for permitting parameters that fixes a few of the issues with require and permit. Let's take a look!

Ruby 3.4 added 'it' to reference a block parameter with no variable name. Let's check it out!

Hotwire Spark is a new live reloading tool for Hotwire applications that uses morphing to update the page smoothly.

You can easily end up on your own fork of an OSS project.

Import maps are great, but how do they work? In this lesson, we'll demystify import maps and see how they integrate with Rails' asset pipeline.

The Rails authentication generator is an awesome new addition with Rails 8 so let's explore how we can customize it to support user impersonation.

Rubocop Rails Omakase is just a starting place and provides a handful of rules.

Rails 7.2 now warns if any test runs without assertions. It helps make tests that may raise errors more explicit and less prone to mistakes.

Formatting Ruby code can be a point of contention because the language is so flexible, but it