AI-driven development - it's a spectrum
I want to share my experience regarding AI-driven development.I know it's not a new and shiny thing, and it's been around for a while now, but some things should need some time to take it through its
Own it - A blog from Adrian Marin
Sharing my lessons on becoming a thriving #indiedev. 🚀 Launching Avo into the world! - 🥑 A beautiful, easy-to-use [Ruby on Rails admin panel framework](http
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SF Ruby 2025 and the Thousand People Framework
I think it's important that the Ruby community knows what just happened in San Francisco last week. 400+ Rubyists got together and shared ideas and visions. They exchanged opinions and presented the past, present, and future of Ruby. I went to very ...
Friendly is taking a break
Tl;DR; We're taking a break with Friendly.rb. We had three beautiful editions, incredible fun, and learned so much in the process. This happening changed us, the hosts in ways we could not imagine. We're taking a break because things have happened in...
Your company's digital brain
What do you need in your digital brain? That's how I think about Avo now. It's not some closeted admin panel where only five people dare to go because touching the data wrong might crash the app. It's the place where you invite your whole team to run...
Developer marketing is important
Here's something that's been on my mind lately about the Rails ecosystem. For the past 10 years, there's been massive investment in dev tooling, especially for JavaScript and TypeScript companies. They take some of that funding and deploy it to marke...
One of the first medium-sized Hotwire apps
Remember the pandemic when we were all stuck at home? That's when I built the first version of Avo. It started as a challenge to see if I could do it. A Vue.js frontend with a Rails API backend. Nothing fancy, just me experimenting during lockdown. T...
RailsConf '25 and the Imposter Syndrome
I'm heading to the last RailsConf's Hack Spaces and honestly, I have massive imposter syndrome. I'm looking at the other maintainers and seeing Marco Roth, Rosa from Solid Queue, Steven, Jose Valim with Hotwire Combo Box, Chris Oliver. These are the ...
Avo beyond admin panels
I've been marketing Avo as an admin panel framework for years. And it's a very good one, but I think it's time to make the distinction between a "thrown-together" admin panel that nobody really uses (because they're afraid of touching the data or the...
Two things I wish I knew when I started to build an internal tool framework
There are two things I wish I knew when I started to build an internal tool framework. 🙌 If you do them properly, you'll be on the right track. People want to get started fast. Fast is the main word here. They have a problem to fix, an idea to share...
Building admin panels sucks 😡
I've probably built a hundred of them in the past, and I was mostly doing a bad job. I started seeing similarities from one to another. Common features which, even if they seemed simple to build, I would still make the same mistakes over and over aga...
Balkan Ruby '25 - The long term
I love traveling! It's a fact. I like traveling to different places and meeting different people. Conferences make that possible and more interesting because the people I will meet will most likely have something in common with me. Balkan Ruby is one...
Tropical.rb, an intimate experience that brought the whole LATAM Ruby community together
I'm still in Brazil, but I have that feeling that "it's over". It's that feeling you get after you had the most wonderful time on a getaway with friends, and you forgot the monotony of work and life. Tropical.rb was a surprise to me. The Brazil Ruby ...
Hosting Ruby meetups with non-Ruby developers rules!
Last evening, we had our first on-the-road Ruby meetup in Sibiu. We didn't have too many expectations as we knew that the Ruby scene in Sibiu is not that hot. Luckily, our friend Stefan runs Sibiu Web Meetup and has been running it for about 5 years ...
The 2023 Ruby Conference season is (almost) over
I call it a Conference season because we just had 6 Ruby conferences in four consecutive weeks on three continents. And that's wild! This is just a testament to how vibrant and healthy the Ruby community really is. The conferences Wroclove.rb started...
My first Brighton Ruby
I’m on the train towards London. I still need to decompress from everything that happened in the past two days. I hope it doesn’t sound harsh when I say “to decompress”, but it does feel like I experienced so many things and met so many cool folks in...
How to bundle assets in a Rails engine
During Rails' lifetime, we had a lot of ways to load, parse, and process assets. The "recommended" way is to hook into the asset pipeline (whichever that is) and, on deployment, let the assets:precompile task to take over and... compile them so they ...
Launch that bottom drawer project
If you have a never-launched product in the bottom drawer that you just think, "it's a failed project", I'm here to tell you that it didn't fail yet. If you didn't launch it, you made it fail! You never gave it a chance! Give yourself an hour to put ...
Why Successful Startups Use MVPs
Website building platforms like WordPress or Wix undeniably revolutionized the internet. Why? For the same reason, a band like Green Day draws a festival-sized crowd in comparison to a jazz ensemble formed of professional musicians who studied music ...
Front page of Hacker News, 2nd product of the day on Product Hunt and featured in one of the biggest Ruby newsletters
Article originally posted on our blog. We've had a crazy marketing week 🎉 The biggest public launches yet. A week before, I planned a Product Hunt but didn't launch it because… I was lazy. On Tuesday, I finished the work on the Product Hunt ...
Auto re-load Rails initializers (and other files) in development
This article was originally published on avo.cool I fixed a shitty situation I created for myself two years back a few days back. What a fantastic feeling that was. I'm still in awe when everything just works. When I first started to work on Avo, I d...