Week 27 - Final RailsConf, Capture Browser Console Logs in Tests, and more!
Discover the latest Hotwire insights, tutorials, and releases in this week edition of Hotwire Weekly!
Welcome to Hotwire Weekly!
Welcome to another, slightly shorter, issue of Hotwire Weekly! Happy reading! 🚀✨
The final RailsConf 2025 is happening in Philadelphia next week and there a number of Hotwire-adjecent talks:
- The Ghosts Of Action View Cache - Hartley McGuire
- Rails Frontend Evolution: It Was A Setup All Along - Svyatoslav Kryukov
- Master The Rails Asset Pipeline: Best Practices For Apps & Gems - Adrian Marin
- Hotwire Native: A Rails Developer’s Secret Tool To Building Mobile Apps (Workshop) - Joe Masilotti
- The Front-End Is Omakase - Cameron Dutro
- The Future Of Rails Begins In The Browser - Vladimir Dementyev, Albert Pazderin
- The Future Of: PWAs On Rails - Edy Silva
- The Modern View Layer Rails Deserves: A Vision For 2025 And Beyond - Marco Roth
You can find the full schedule on the RailsConf website or on RubyEvents.org.
📚 Articles, Tutorials, and Videos
Remote Ruby: Conferences, Hotwire Native updates, and a surprise guest! - Andrew Mason and Chris Oliver dive into Hotwire Native updates and features, among other things like RailsConf, Rails World, and app design tips.
Auto-pause YouTube Videos with Stimulus - Rails Designer shows how to auto-pause YouTube <iframe>s when they scroll out of view, using Stimulus and the YouTube <iframe> API.
Capture Browser Console Logs in Rails System Tests with Capybara and Cuprite - Daniela Baron shows how to capture browser console logs in Rails system tests using Capybara Cuprite with a simple StringIO logger—great for debugging JS issues during tests.
SSR / Server Side Rendering with Inertia Rails - Ken Greeff sets up server-side rendering (SSR) for Inertia.js with Rails and Vite, walking through the full process to get HTML rendering on the server for better SEO in Rails + React apps.
🧰 Libraries and Tools
Rails Blocks - A ready-to-use collection of 120+ UI components with minimal dependencies and a focus on simplicity.
Herb LSP - HTML+ERB Language Tools for VS Code, Cursor, Neovim, and Zed.
🎉 Releases
view_component v4.0.0.rc2 - A framework for building reusable, testable & encapsulated view components in Ruby on Rails.
bridge-components v0.5.0 - A collection of bridge components for Hotwire Native apps.
stimulus-testing v2.1.0 - Testing-library integration for Symfony UX (now deprecated).
tailwindcss-rails v4.3.0 - Tailwind CSS for Rails.
tailwindcss-ruby v4.1.11 - A self-contained tailwindcss executable, wrapped up in a ruby gem.
hot-glue v0.6.21 - Plug & play Rails scaffold building companion for Turbo.
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