Adrien Siami

Software engineer, Ruby, Rails, Web and stuff.
Working on PullMentor, a tool to improve code review efficiency.

Make server-rendered apps great again with Turbo, Stimulus and view transitions

Posted on March 1, 2026

I’ve been using Hotwire in production since the beta release of Turbo, and it’s changed the way I build web apps. It’s a great way to get SPA-like interactivity at a fraction of the complexity. [Read More]
Launching YAMLFish, a simple translations management tool

Posted on December 16, 2024

As a software engineer, I’ve always dreaded working with translations. It can get increasingly tricky with the number of locales and parallel features being developed. [Read More]
Avoid constantize in Rails

Posted on November 26, 2024

What do you do when you need to instanciate a class in Rails, but its name is dynamic? [Read More]
Generate magic tokens in Rails with generates_token_for

Posted on April 28, 2024

For a long time, and probably still today, the reference for authentication in Rails is using a gem like Devise. [Read More]
The Rails asset pipeline, old and new

Posted on January 17, 2024

Sprockets, Webpack(er), Importmaps, esbuild, propshaft, rollup, sass, postCSS, tailwind? It’s easy to get lost between all the tools offered by Rails to manage your assets, especially if you’re a beginner in web software development or new to the Rails ecosystem. [Read More]
Deploying a metabase instance on any server with kamal

Posted on January 3, 2024

Metabase is a great tool for easy dashboarding and analytics, it is open source meaning you can deploy it easily on your own infrastructure. [Read More]
Using minio to mock S3 in rails test and development

Posted on November 3, 2020

I recently stumbled upon minio when looking at the shrine doc while setting up tests related to file uploads. [Read More]

Make server-rendered apps great again with Turbo, Stimulus and view transitions

Launching YAMLFish, a simple translations management tool

Avoid constantize in Rails

Generate magic tokens in Rails with generates_token_for

The Rails asset pipeline, old and new

Deploying a metabase instance on any server with kamal

Using minio to mock S3 in rails test and development