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Agent Auth Protocol: How AI Agents Get Permission to Act

Published: 31 Aug 2026
Author: Adithya Hebbar
System Analyst

API keys and OAuth weren't built for AI agents. Agent Auth Protocol (AAP) adds discovery, typed capabilities, human approval, and per-call constraints.

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A Folder and a Markdown File: How Agent Skills Actually Work

Published: 26 Aug 2026
Author: Syed Sibtain
System Analyst

A practical walkthrough of Agent Skills and SKILL.md, what happens mechanically when an agent loads one, the skills I've shipped across five projects, and where the design quietly breaks down.

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How Claude's Text Watermark Works (And Where It Breaks Down)

Published: 25 Aug 2026
Author: Syed Sibtain
System Analyst

A practical walkthrough of Claude's text watermark, how it hides an invisible signal in word choices, how detection works, and why its limitations fall directly out of the design.

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Agentic Memory: A Practical Guide to How AI Agents Remember

Published: 11 Aug 2026
Author: Nived Hari
System Analyst

A practical guide to agentic memory, covering working, semantic, episodic, and procedural memory, along with storage, retrieval, distillation, and memory evolution.

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Protecting Your LLM Applications from Prompt Injection Attacks

Published: 03 Mar 2026
Author: Nitturu Baba
System Analyst

Learn practical techniques to defend against prompt injection attacks in AI applications with simple code examples.

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Evaluating LLM Agents: Confidence Through Pre-Production Testing

Published: 19 Jan 2026
Author: Nived Hari
System Analyst

How to design practical pre-production testing for LLM systems—using datasets, evaluators, and experiments to catch regressions before shipping.

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Evaluating LLM Agents: Building the Design Phase Right

Published: 15 Jan 2026
Author: Adithya Hebbar
System Analyst

The first step to production-ready agents. Master visual debugging, trace collection, and unit testing with LangGraph Studio, LangSmith, and Vitest before moving to pre-production.

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Getting Started with DeepAgents: Building Structured, Long-Running AI Agents

Published: 05 Dec 2025
Author: Nived Hari
System Analyst

A practical introduction to LangChain’s Deep Agents—exploring planning, memory, iterative workflows, subagents, and how this framework enables long-horizon AI reasoning.

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Operating Kafka in Rails with Karafka: Production Architecture, Consumers, and DLQs (Part 2)

Published: 18 Nov 2025
Author: Syed Sibtain
System Analyst

In Part 2, we dive deep into the Sync-Out pipeline—how Rails publishes events to Kafka, how our legacy adapter writes to SQL Server 2009 using TinyTDS, and how Dead-Letter Queues (DLQs) became our lifeline during production incidents. This post covers transaction management, service objects, and operational workflows for handling failures.

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Operating Kafka in Rails with Karafka: Production Architecture, Consumers, and DLQs (Part 1)

Published: 17 Nov 2025
Author: Syed Sibtain
System Analyst

This post breaks down our production architecture for event streaming in Rails using Kafka and Karafka—from designing producers and consumer flows to handling failures with DLQs and keeping warehouse databases in sync reliably.

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OAuth Proxy Server: Handling Dynamic Redirect URIs in Development Environments

Published: 18 Sep 2025
Author: Satya Swaroop Mohapatra
Senior System Analyst

A comprehensive guide to implementing an OAuth proxy server for managing authentication across dynamic development URLs. Includes Rails implementation with Slack OAuth, middleware patterns, and solutions for ngrok, preview deployments, and PR review apps.

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Step One in RAG: Building Your First Knowledge Retrieval Pipeline

Published: 10 Sep 2025
Author: Swasthik K

Learn how to build your first RAG pipeline by combining HuggingFace embeddings, Pinecone vector search, LangChain orchestration, and Perplexity-powered responses.

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LangGraph Explained: Building Smarter, More Reliable AI Agents

Published: 02 Sep 2025
Authors: Adithya Hebbar & Sujay Prabhu
System Analyst • Senior System Analyst

Discover the need for LangGraph and how it powers reliable AI agents in JavaScript

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Map Client Roles to User Groups in Keycloak

Published: 25 Jul 2025
Author: Sachin Kabadi
System Analyst

This guide provides a step-by-step process for administrators who want to streamline client-role-based access management in their Keycloak setup and access user roles from access token in rails app.

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Turbo Morphing —A Cleaner Way to Update Your Rails UI

Published: 09 Jul 2025
Author: Nived Hari
System Analyst

Turbo Morphing brings smarter UI updates to Rails—minimal code, no templates, and a smoother user experience.

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Rails Inflections: The Magic Behind Singular and Plural Transformation

Published: 29 Apr 2025
Author: Sujay Prabhu
Senior System Analyst

Learn how Rails Inflector handles singular and plural forms with customizable rules

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Unleash the Power of Hotwire(Part 2): Getting Started with Stimulus

Published: 17 Apr 2025
Author: Satya Swaroop Mohapatra
Senior System Analyst

Learn the fundamentals of Stimulus, the lightweight JavaScript framework that complements Hotwire. Start with the basics and build your understanding step by step.

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Understanding AI Orchestrators, Agents, Tools, and Workflow Automation

Published: 12 Mar 2025
Author: Nitturu Baba
System Analyst

Discover how AI orchestrators, agents, and tools work together to automate workflows, enabling AI to interact with real-world systems efficiently. Learn how this structured approach enhances productivity and reduces manual effort.

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Enhancing AI Capabilities with Tool Calling

Published: 03 Mar 2025
Author: Nitturu Baba
System Analyst

Supercharging AI with Tool Calling in NestJS Using AI-SDK

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Understanding the Rails Asset Pipeline

Published: 04 Feb 2025
Author: Aditya Vishwakarma
System Analyst

A comprehensive guide to understanding the Rails Asset Pipeline, its features, and its role in modern web development.

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Keycloak Single Sign-On Integration with Rails using omniauth-keycloak gem

Published: 14 Nov 2024
Author: Sachin Kabadi
System Analyst

This guide walks you through setting up Keycloak locally using Docker, creating a realm, user, client and integrating Keycloak with a Rails application using the omniauth-keycloak gem for single sign-on (SSO).

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Mock External Services in Rails with WebMock and Rack

Published: 10 Nov 2024
Author: Sujay Prabhu
Senior System Analyst

Discover how to mock external services in Rails application using WebMock and Rack to simplify testing

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Implementing Retrieval-Augmented Generation with LangChain, Pgvector and OpenAI

Published: 24 Oct 2024
Author: Adithya Hebbar
System Analyst

Learn how to implement Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) using LangChain, Pgvector, and OpenAI to store document embeddings and generate context-aware responses

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Understanding Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with OpenAI

Published: 17 Sep 2024
Author: Adithya Hebbar
System Analyst

Explore how to enhance language models using Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with OpenAI's API.

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Organizing ActiveRecord Models into a Tree Structure with the Ancestry Gem in Rails

Published: 12 Sep 2024
Author: Giritharan
System Analyst

This blog explains how to organize ActiveRecord models into a tree structure using the Ancestry gem in Rails to manage parent-child hierarchical structures. It covers the setup, features, and querying methods that make managing hierarchical data both simple and efficient.

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Unleash the Power of Hotwire(Part 1)

Published: 20 May 2024
Author: Satya Swaroop Mohapatra
Senior System Analyst

A detailed guide to Hotwire in Rails exploring turbo-drive, turbo-frames and turbo-streams. Learn how to build blazing-fast applications with real-time updates without full page reloads.

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Rails Autoloading - Classic and Zeitwerk

Published: 06 May 2024
Author: Sujay Prabhu
Senior System Analyst

Discover the evolution from Rails Classic autoloader to the dynamic Zeitwerk.

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Using AWS S3 with Rails ActiveStorage for File Uploads

Published: 15 Feb 2024
Author: Sachin Kabadi
System Analyst

Guide to Setting Up AWS S3 Bucket for Rails Active Storage File Uploads

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Understanding basic CSS Units for web design and bridging the gap between Designer and Developers.

Published: 28 Sep 2023
Author: Mehrukh
System Analyst

A comprehensive guide for understanding the basic concepts of px, em, and rem units. Also learn about Tailwind config and how to use Figma's developer mode to close the gap between designers and developers.

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How do we automate OTP using gmail tester in cypress & playwright e2e test

Published: 27 Aug 2023
Author: Rishav Raj
System Analyst

Automate OTP verification using the gmail-tester library in combination with Cypress and Playwright E2E tests

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Guide to set up Gitlab CI for Rails tests

Published: 14 May 2021
Author: Menuba Tenny

Learn to run rails test on Gitlab CI pipeline

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Decluttering Translations in Rails Apps

Published: 12 Nov 2019
Author: Manu Raj

Approaches for clean rails translation files as application grows

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Using Pundit for authorization in Rails - recipes and best practices

Published: 29 Jul 2018
Author: Akshay Sasidharan

Make better authorization for your application.

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APIs supporting snake_case and camelCase with Rails

Published: 25 Aug 2016
Author: Yuva
Co-founder

Supporting API conventions for client like reactjs can be quite tricky. This post talks about approach to make APIs accessible using snakecase or camelCase.

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Working with Rails, Webpack and Heroku

Published: 08 Apr 2016
Author: Kashyap

Deploying a Rails app with Webpack asset management on Heroku can be tricky. However, Heroku provides lifecycle hooks on its NodeJs buildpack that will help make this easier.

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New in ActiveRecord

Published: 23 Dec 2015
Author: Kashyap

Rails 5 has a new feature added to ActiveRecord that makes working with batch data much more efficient. The `Model.in_batches` function passes a batch of records wrapped inside an ActiveRecord collection.

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Cake walk

Published: 10 Dec 2014
Author: Yuva
Co-founder

Traditionally, Rails 3.x and above come with Sprockets and asset management functions. However, using a JavaScript or CSS library with Sprockets means we'd have to roll them into gems with a specific directory heirarchy. Instead, we can leverage Bower to handle that for us.

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Form object validations in Rails 4

Published: 22 Mar 2014
Author: Yuva
Co-founder

Interacting with complex web forms tends to become hairy pretty quickly. Using Form or Service objects to abstract out the complexity can help wrangle complexity. This post talks about how we use them to make code simpler.

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Random Ruby tips from trenches #1

Published: 07 Jan 2014
Author: Hemant

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Setting up Emacs as Ruby development environment on OSX

Published: 17 Oct 2013
Author: Hemant

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How rails reloads your source code in development mode?

Published: 03 Oct 2013
Author: Yuva
Co-founder

In this post, I will talk about how Rails 3.x reloads code in the development environment.

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Isolate Namespace in Rails Engines - A hack in itself

Published: 22 Sep 2013
Author: Yuva
Co-founder

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Setting up Source Maps for CoffeeScript in Rails

Published: 05 Sep 2013
Author: Amitava

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Redefine rake routes to add your own custom tag in Rails

Published: 12 Jul 2013
Author: Deepak

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All you need to know about writing a mountable Rails Gem with rspec

Published: 30 May 2013
Author: Yuva
Co-founder

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Profile Ruby 2.0 apps using DTrace - part 2

Published: 27 May 2013
Author: Hemant

Ruby 2.0 and above has in-built support for DTrace hooks. This lets us profile Ruby programs. In this post, I'll go into the details of the features of DTrace.

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Rails Autoload Path

Published: 01 May 2013
Author: Yuva
Co-founder

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Profile Ruby 2.0 apps using DTrace - Part 1

Published: 16 Apr 2013
Author: Hemant

Ruby 2.0 and above has in-built support for DTrace hooks. This lets us profile Ruby programs. In this post, I'll introduce DTrace and how to add DTrace probes to a Ruby program.

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