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EXPLORING ACTIVE AGENT, OR CAN WE BUILD AI FEATURES THE RAILS WAY?

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Summary from the TLDR Web Dev newsletter

Active Agent is a Ruby gem that helps integrate AI features into Rails applications using familiar Rails conventions and patterns. It introduces "agents" as a new abstraction that encapsulates AI-backed logic, using action-driven objects, callbacks, and prompt rendering similar to Rails controllers and mailers.