Railsconf '25 Avo Hack Space

Thanks for wanting to get involved with Open Source through project we do at Avo.

Location: Banquet Hall Hack Space Station: Yellow Station Schedule Time: July 9th, 2025 — 2:30PM ~ 5:00PM

As a reminder, Avo started out as an admin panel framework and slowly evolved into a complete toolkit to develop internal tools and operational software for your entire team.

We develop commercial software but our roots are with Open-source. We have a bunch of initiatives that we're supporting through Open-source, sponsorships, events and other ways.

Open Source

Some of our more popular Open Source projects are avo, marksmith, class_variants, stimulus-confetti, prop_initializer and active_storage-blurhash.

Hack Spaces

At Hack Spaces we are pretty open to any ideas you have. We can work on specific projects, talk about Open Source, SaaS, dev-tools, development, or other cool topics you think we are covering.

Some suggestions: Rails engines; asset management; Rails and JS integration; gem deployment tactics; product development; running a dev-tool SaaS; marketing for developers;

We prepared a few hack spaces issues for us to work on.

Avo

Easy

• PDF field - avo-hq/avo#3818
• Boolean field to show indeterminate state when nil - avo-hq/avo#3873
• Unavatar field - avo-hq/avo#2994
• Add :action_policy authorization driver - avo-hq/avo#1922
• Stars field - avo-hq/avo#1896
• Navigate to section helper - avo-hq/avo#3060
• Boolean field as toggle - avo-hq/avo#3960

Intermediate

• Add lightbox support for file field - avo-hq/avo#1647
• Allow multiple records attach - avo-hq/avo#2116
• Toggle off filters and search for has_many associations - avo-hq/avo#2035
• Add support for Active Record Encryption in fields - avo-hq/avo#3959
• Update list after "attach & attach another" action - avo-hq/avo#3434
• Pass all html options in the html option - avo-hq/avo#3145
• Attach files to record from the Media library - avo-hq/avo#3776

Difficult

• Add option to make table headers on index view sticky - avo-hq/avo#1116 (requires some special JS work)

Marksmith

*Mostly JS work but all for Rails 🫶

• Support video files - avo-hq/marksmith#20 (Intermediate)
• Support audio files - avo-hq/marksmith#80 (Intermediate)
• Support task lists - avo-hq/marksmith#3 (Intermediate)
• Add mention support - avo-hq/marksmith#81 (Intermediate)
• Add text expander support - avo-hq/marksmith#82 (Intermediate)

Class Variants

• Create a cv helper method - avo-hq/class_variants#39 (Easy)

Stimulus Confetti

• Ability to trigger confetti from a JS event - avo-hq/stimulus-confetti#4 (Easy)
• Ability to render confetti on page load - avo-hq/stimulus-confetti#3 (Easy)