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98 from 30 Mar 2021 to 22 Sep 2026
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2026 4

  1. Active Storage image optimization at scale-ish: lessons from 1,916 conference photos
  2. Avo 4 is here - New UI, New Addons, New Everything
  3. Avo 4 Open Beta
  4. Avo CRM hosted on a NAS

2025 38

  1. Building an Audio Player with StimulusJS
  2. Deterministic Mesh Gradient Avatars in Rails
  3. Code highlighting with Rails
  4. Log SQL queries in the Rails console
  5. Quickly clear the Rails cache in development
  6. Open Graph Image Generation in Rails
  7. Adding Breadcrumbs to a Rails Application
  8. Intelligent Search in Rails with Typesense
  9. Rails API Authentication with the auth generator
  10. Canonical URLs in Rails applications
  11. Rails S3 Direct Uploads
  12. Apple Wallet Passes in Rails Apps
  13. Referral System in Rails applications
  14. Building a Superglue App in Rails
  15. Visual breakpoint debugging for responsive Rails applications with TailwindCSS
  16. Adding an MCP server to a Rails app
  17. Rails Engine Assets: Making Your Gem Work with Sprockets AND Propshaft
  18. OTP Input field with StimulusJS
  19. Adding llms.txt to a Rails application
  20. Passwordless authentication with the NoPassword gem
  21. GitHub Flavored Markdown in Rails with Commonmarker
  22. Cloudflare Turnstile for spam prevention in Rails - Avo
  23. Custom domains and SSL in Rails development - Avo
  24. Sign in with Apple for Rails apps - Avo
  25. Cloudflare R2 with Active Storage - Avo
  26. Multistep Forms in Rails with the Wicked gem - Avo
  27. Markdown Image Uploads with EasyMDE and Active Storage - Avo
  28. Adding shortcodes to the Marksmith editor - Avo
  29. Adding Structured Data to a Rails Application - Avo
  30. Resize Observer API with Stimulus - Avo
  31. Adding confetti to an app with stimulus-confetti - Avo
  32. Testing OmniAuth Authentication with Rails - Avo
  33. Social login with the Rails 8 auth generator
  34. Building an Inertia app with Rails - Avo
  35. User Confirmation with the Rails Auth Generator - Avo
  36. Rails 8 Authentication with the auth generator - Avo
  37. Component variants in Rails with the class_variants gem
  38. Better image placeholders with Blurhash in Active Storage - Avo

2024 19

  1. Avo 2024 Year in Review - 12 major releases, 542 PRs merged, and about 45 external contributors ✨
  2. Magic Links Authentication with Rails - Avo
  3. Dynamic Table of Contents with Rails and Nokogiri - Avo
  4. How to add an RSS feed to a Rails app - Avo
  5. Add Social Login to a Rails app - Avo
  6. Sitemaps for Rails applications - Avo
  7. What's new in Rails 8 - Avo
  8. Add meta tags to a Rails application - Avo
  9. Friendly URLs with the FriendlyId gem - Avo
  10. Serving static assets with a CDN in Rails - Avo
  11. Using a CDN for Active Storage Uploads - Avo
  12. S3 uploads with Active Storage guide
  13. Log View Component loading times and allocations
  14. Delegated Types and and building the ultimate Kanban Board in Rails
  15. Override the field method to add default values to field options
  16. We're looking for a technical writer
  17. Taking care of performance
  18. Avo is a part of TinySeed Spring 24 batch
  19. State the problem not the solution

2023 6

  1. Upgrade your subscription from Avo 2 to Avo 3
  2. Avo 3 launched!
  3. Avo 3 open beta
  4. The difference between Avo and Rails starter kits
  5. Avo Survey 2022
  6. How to bundle assets in a Rails engine

2022 21

  1. How Successful Agencies Ensure Dev Happiness PART 3
  2. How Successful Agencies Ensure Dev Happiness PART 2
  3. Launch that bottom drawer project
  4. Add target and other attributes to elements in Rails
  5. How Successful Agencies Ensure Dev Happiness PART 1
  6. Safely extend a Ruby on Rails controller
  7. New Rails asset compilation mental model
  8. Use multiple resources for the same model
  9. Avo on Ruby Rogues podcast
  10. Why Successful Startups Use MVPs
  11. Front page of Hacker News, 2nd product of the day on Product Hunt and featured in one of the biggest Ruby newsletters
  12. Avo 2.8 - Stimulus JS integration
  13. Avo 2.3
  14. Auto re-load Rails initializers (and other files) in development
  15. Avo 2.0
  16. Dynamically re-use & lazy-load pages using Hotwire
  17. Associations fixes and some maintenance
  18. Update your partials, a few bugfixes, and quality-of-life improvements
  19. Dynamic belongs to search and is_audio support
  20. Advanced authorization rules for associations, resource description, better support for STI and edge-cases models
  21. More data in blocks, loading spinners, failed fram states and a bunch more

2021 10

  1. Standalone actions
  2. Polymorphic belongs to & computed select options
  3. Global and resource search
  4. Custom fields & Trix attachments in the 🏠 house
  5. KeyValue field is back
  6. Bring your own asset pipeline & others in v1.3
  7. Breadcrumbs & page titles
  8. Custom tools land in Avo
  9. Community license free for commercial projects
  10. Avo v1.0 💪 🎉