Rails Fever Blog

Philadelphia has a strong Ruby on Rails community. The city hosted RailsConf, has an active Philly.rb meetup, and is home to several consultancies that focus specifically on Rails work. If you are a CTO, founder,...

If you are on Rails 7.2 and staring at Rails 8, you are in the happiest version of this migration. 7.2 was specifically shaped as the on-ramp to 8. Most of the hard work -...

Hiring a full-time senior Rails engineer takes 2-4 months and costs $150K-$220K per year in salary alone. For a lot of companies — early-stage startups, bootstrapped SaaS products, teams between engineering hires — that math...

If you run a product built on Ruby on Rails, your app depends on two major pieces of infrastructure: the Rails framework and the Ruby programming language. Most founders and CTOs pay attention to Rails...

Rails app maintenance is the work that keeps a production application secure, performant, and changeable over time. It is not glamorous. It does not show up in product demos. But it is the difference between...

Rails 8 has been out long enough now that “we’re planning our Rails 7 to Rails 8 upgrade” is no longer early-adopter talk. It is overdue for a lot of teams. If you’re on Rails...