Week 05 - Monitoring ActionCable, back to jQuery in 2025, and more!
This edition dives into monitoring ActionCable, building Rails components, and more!

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📚 Articles, Tutorials, and Videos
📚 Articles
Monitoring ActionCable - Stanko Krtalic shares a guide on monitoring ActionCable connections in production. The article covers key considerations, such as tracking the number of connected users, detecting connection failures, and ensuring smooth real-time functionality.
Build Rails Apps with Components - Brad Gessler introduces Superview on the Terminalwire blog, a gem designed to streamline the integration of component-based views in Rails applications. Superview enables automatic rendering of components like Phlex and ViewComponent by mapping controller actions to corresponding component classes to reduce boilerplate code.
Build a (progressively enhanced) drawer component with Hotwire - Steve Polito demonstrates on the thoughtbot blog how to create an animated drawer component using server-rendered templates and the View Transition API, reducing the need for JavaScript.
Ruby on Rails on WebAssembly, the full-stack in-browser journey - Vladimir Dementyev demonstrates on the web.dev blog how to run a full Rails application entirely within the browser using WebAssembly. By compiling Rails into wasm, developers can create fully functional web applications that operate client-side without traditional server infrastructure. This approach opens new possibilities for offline applications, rapid prototyping, and enhanced learning environments.
I’m Going Back to jQuery in 2025 (And Why That’s Not Insanity) - Marc Boisvert-Dupras reflects on the appeal of jQuery in modern web development, emphasizing simplicity, stability, and progressive enhancement over complex JavaScript frameworks. While not specifically Hotwire-related, the principles discussed - favoring declarative, server-driven approaches and minimizing frontend complexity - align closely with Hotwire's philosophy.
🎙️ Podcasts
Hotwire Native with Joe Masilotti - Joe Masilotti joins the Remote Ruby podcast to explore the evolution of mobile application development using Hotwire Native. They discuss the transition from Turbolinks to Hotwire Native. They emphasize the advantages of server-driven logic in mobile apps. They also talk about Joe's book, which aims to guide Rails developers in building iOS and Android applications. Check out his Hotwire Native book.
📺 Videos/Courses
Webinar Recording: From React to Hotwire - An Unexpected Journey - Maciek Korsan's recording of the Arkency webinar that took place this week is available on YouTube as a recording.
Video Course: Hotwire Native Android with Jumpstart Pro Android - Donn Felker released the first half of his Hotwire Native Course for Hotwire Native Android and Jumpstart Pro Android. The course is now live on YouTube and contains 24 videos and 3.5h hours worth of content.
Video: Real-time Messaging with Solid Cable - Typecraft released a new video on the official Rails YouTube channel about Real-Time Messaging with Solid Cable and Rails 8.
Building a Budgeting App - Ruby on Rails 8 - Start to Go-Live - QuantumFire is building a Budgeting App using Rails 8 and Turbo and is streaming the whole process live on YouTube and Twitch. He streamed quite a bit in the last few days and might be soon getting into Hotwire Native too.
🧰 Libraries and Tools
turbo-mount - Use React, Vue, Svelte, and other components with Hotwire.
stimulus-conductor - A controller to manage Parent/Children controllers with simple conventions.
🎉 Releases
hotwire-native-ios v1.1.2 - Hotwire Native for iOS.
turbo-flask v0.8.6 - Integration of Turbo with Flask.
symfony/stimulus-bridge v4.0.0 - Stimulus integration bridge for Symfony projects.
solid_cable v3.0.6 - A database backed ActionCable adapter.
hot-glue v0.6.11 - Scaffold builder for Turbo-Rails and Hotwire.
tom-select v2.4.2 - Tom Select is a lightweight hybrid of a textbox and select box.
tailwindcss-rails v4.0.0 - Integrate Tailwind CSS with the asset pipeline in Rails.
tailwindcss-ruby v4.0.1 - v4.0.3 - A self-contained tailwindcss
executable, wrapped up in a ruby gem
css-zero v1.0.5 - An opinionated CSS starter kit for your "nobuild" application
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