Optimize for developer speed

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Launches a Rails 8 app in two months as a solo developer, using the rails main branch to avoid future upgrades and to contribute fixes back; encrypts sensitive fields with Active Record and normalizes emails; drives live UI updates with Turbo 8 via broadcast_refreshes and Hotwire Native Bridge for incremental mobile polish; verifies the whole flow with one system test suite enforced as 100% test coverage running ~22s under Playwright; several apps ship, including one deployed yesterday.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 4:57Rails project setup
3. 7:45Optimizing User model
4. 13:52Simplifying controllers
5. 16:58Dynamic interfaces with Turbo 8
6. 19:05Testing strategy for rapid development
7. 22:15Styling with Pico CSS
8. 24:03Web to mobile with Hotwire
9. 26:35Why Rails is best
10. 27:40Q&A

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