Active Agent (AI Rails Framework) Demo / Pairing ✨ Let's Build Your First Agent in Ruby on Rails!
Active Agent is THE Rails-native way to build AI features.
It's a free open source framework that lets ANY Rails developer ship real, user-facing AI features using controllers, views, & background jobs. No code glue. No complexity.
In this video:
Justin Bowen, creator of Active Agent, pairs with Adrian Marin, creator of AvoHQ (avohq.io).
Adrian gets a white-glove demo of how to structure prompts, use tool calls, and integrate LLMs directly into a Rails app. Along the way, they build a working invoicing agent that parses PDF invoices and even performs currency conversions using tool calls and service objects.
Topics covered:
✨ What is Active Agent and how does it work?
✨ Tool calls vs. prompt templates
✨ How to integrate AI in a Rails app with Active Agent
✨ Prompt generation and template rendering
✨ Passing context between agents
✨ Building a real invoicing agent
✨ Ideas for logging, replaying, and monitoring LLM interactions
“Thanks for Active Agent. It’s not an easy thing to build, not an easy thing to think about with this whole new AI—new paradigms, new ways of working with it. I think the Rails ecosystem is better with it than without it. And now I freaking have a good understanding of what it does.” -- Adrian Marin
Whether you’re new to AI development or already building AI features in Rails, this video will give you a clear, practical introduction to getting started with Active Agent.
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