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Rails Spotlight Chrome Extension Lightning Talk

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Pavo's wroclove.rb 2025 lightning talk presenting Rails Spotlight — a Chrome extension he built as a long-running side project to help Rails developers inspect their applications. After adding a companion gem, the extension shows per-request breakdowns, parameters, headers (with filtering), local variables and custom per-request metadata, Active Record queries (including running them, viewing results, asking an AI model about a specific query and optionally executing the AI's answer), arbitrary Ruby console execution against the running instance, prepared snippet scripts that auto-detect object attributes (e.g. changing 'John Smith' to the current user), an in-browser editor that lets you modify a view (demonstrated by changing a button's color in a Vite-powered UI), and a notes/to-do list. Invites attendees to find him after the talk for more.

date
2025-03-14
type
lightning-talk
talk Rails Spotlight Chrome Extension Lightning Talk
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Rails Spotlight project
Demo of the Rails Spotlight Chrome extension.
talk Rails Spotlight Chrome Extension Lightning Talk
about
Rails Spotlight targets Rails applications.
person Pavo
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Rails Spotlight Chrome Extension Lightning Talk talk
Pavo built Rails Spotlight and presented it in the lightning talk.
talk Rails Spotlight Chrome Extension Lightning Talk
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Lightning talk session at wroclove.rb 2025.

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