Building Modern Rails UI Without a JavaScript Framework
How Hotwire — Turbo Frames, Streams, full-page morph, and Stimulus — covers most of what a JavaScript framework was required for, and which tool to reach for.
I'm Mario Alberto, a software engineer and entrepreneur based in Colima, México. I'm the creator of Rails MCP Server and former CTO/co-founder of Aoorora, where I architected a core banking platform in Ruby on Rails that enabled lending startups to build on modern, secure infrastructure. I spend my time at the intersection of Ruby on Rails and AI—building tools that help developers work smarter. When I'm not writing code, I'm documenting territory, popular culture, and memory through photography.
How Hotwire — Turbo Frames, Streams, full-page morph, and Stimulus — covers most of what a JavaScript framework was required for, and which tool to reach for.
Why I'm building Fragua — a Rails app that orchestrates AI agents through the whole arc of building software, with the work kept visible throughout.
Why I built recuerd0, a context memory layer for AI coding agents, on SQLite and FTS5 full-text search instead of embeddings, vector databases, or RAG.