Rails for Founders

Turbo Frames 101: explained with a Mona Lisa analogy

Turbo frames are like a curator replacing pictures inside frames at a museum

Apr 23 • Nityesh Agarwal

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Broadcasting with Turbo Streams — making everyone’s browser light up at once

Part 2 of the article series written by o3 to teach me Hotwire concepts

Apr 17 • Nityesh Agarwal

A no-nonsense plain English Turbo Streams explainer

I asked o3 to teach me about Turbo Streams without using too many technical words and using English. Here's that explainer.

Apr 17 • Nityesh Agarwal

March 2025

Understanding pgvector Postgres extension, neighbour gem and vector embeddings in Rails

Conversation between AI and I to understand step 1 of working with AI APIs in Rails applications

Mar 17 • Nityesh Agarwal

Rails Serialization: The Migration-Free Approach to save Evolving User Preferences

Today I learnt about a way to store flexible user preferences data in my db without creating new columns in the table

Mar 17 • Nityesh Agarwal

Debugging Smarter: When AI Misses the Mark

How I solved a tricky bug in my Rails app by ditching AI and going old-school.

Mar 5 • Piyush Agarwal

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March 2024

When do you need the splat operator ("*") in Ruby on Rails?

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Mar 12, 2024 • Piyush Agarwal

What is the conditional assignment operator in Ruby on Rails (||=)

Conditional assignment operator is one of those things that you don't need to know as a beginner but you'll see being used commonly in open source code.

Mar 12, 2024 • Piyush Agarwal

May 2023

Getting started with TailwindCSS as a CSS newbie who doesn't know UI design

Yes, it is possible to create a professional-like design using Tailwind even if you're new to this world

May 19, 2023 • Nityesh Agarwal

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April 2023

N+1 query problem and how to prevent it using include() ActiveRecord method

One trick to optimise your database queries

Apr 17, 2023 • Nityesh Agarwal

How to use AJAX in Rails to query database in real time

AJAX for new web developers using Rails

Apr 10, 2023 • Nityesh Agarwal

How to collaborate with your cofounder on Git and Github when building your Rails app

Common Git/Github hurdles so you can skip the frustration and jump straight to the benefits

Apr 10, 2023 • Nityesh Agarwal

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