Welcome to our RailsConf 2025 Hack Space!

Join me in contributing to HotwireCombobox at RailsConf day 2 (July 9th)!

Location: Banquet Hall
Hack Space Station: Teal Station
Schedule Time: July 9th, 2025 — 10:00AM ~ 12:40PM

We can use this time to pair and/or chat about contributing to the project (or just to open-source in general). Beginners welcome!

If you’re here early and would like to pair with me during the conference—make sure you clone the repo and follow the instructions in the (super short) contributing doc to set up before you’re at the venue. We’ve been told the wi-fi situation can get tricky.

We can work on whatever you like. But here are some ideas. I’ve split them up by rough experience level, but I don’t think that should matter too much. We’ll be collaborating in realtime so we can tackle any of these together. And you never know, problems that seem difficult sometimes turn out to be easy and viceversa.

Beginner

• Swap margin for padding on dialog options? #198
• Custom debounce interval? #227
• How can a default value be set for a form.combobox tag? #167
• Cutting a new HotwireCombobox release
• Improving docs

Intermediate

• Grouped async select options #206
• Optional message to show for "no results found" #210
• Multiselect May Break When Values are Strings With Certain Characters #155
• Deprecate enum cleverness
• Implement Android back button behavior
• Disabled options
• Fixing accessibility in docs

Advanced

• Avoid making roundtrip to server for vanilla multiselect chips
• Improve PORO support, also see this issue
• Validate and fix bootstrap incompatibilities
• Manual selection