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rails-hotwire

Ruby on Rails Hotwire best practices for building interactive applications with Turbo Drive, Turbo Frames, Turbo Streams, Turbo 8 morphing, and Stimulus controllers. This skill should be used when writing, reviewing, or refactoring Hotwire-powered Rails code to ensure optimal patterns for navigation, partial page updates, real-time broadcasting, morphing, Stimulus controller design, error handling, and progressive enhancement. Triggers on tasks involving Turbo Frames, Turbo Streams, Turbo Drive, broadcasts, morphing, Stimulus controllers, ActionCable, turbo_stream_from, turbo_frame_tag, data-controller, data-action, or Hotwire performance. Complementary to rails-dev, rails-testing, rails-design-system, ruby-optimise, and ruby-refactor skills.

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# Community Rails Hotwire Best Practices

Comprehensive guide for building interactive Rails applications with Hotwire (Turbo + Stimulus), maintained by Community. Contains 53 rules across 9 categories, prioritized by impact to guide automated refactoring and code generation. Follows the DHH "One Person Framework" philosophy: the server renders HTML, Turbo makes it feel like an SPA, Stimulus adds the sprinkle of JS where needed.

## When to Apply

Reference these guidelines when:
- Configuring Turbo Drive navigation, prefetching, and caching behavior
- Adding Turbo Frames for partial page updates and lazy loading
- Delivering Turbo Streams for surgical DOM mutations
- Broadcasting real-time updates over ActionCable
- Enabling Turbo 8 morphing for page refreshes
- Writing Stimulus controllers for client-side behavior
- Handling errors in Turbo navigation, frames, and WebSocket connections
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