Hotwire Native Office Hours: How a Developer Question Led to Deleting Unnecessary Code
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joemasilotti
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Summary
The author shares their experience hosting monthly Hotwire Native Office Hours, where developers ask questions about the framework. During a recent session, a question about detecting app versions led to the realization that Ruby already had a built-in solution, allowing them to delete an entire custom class they had written. The article reflects on the value of community Q&A sessions and the importance of checking existing solutions before building new ones.
Key quotes
· 4 pulledEvery month I host an hour long Zoom session for developers to directly ask me questions.
The topics range greatly: some folks are just getting started and others are asking very specific, advanced questions.
During the session I shared some code I wrote to figure out what version a Hotwire Native app is running.
One great question in office hours led me to delete a whole class.
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