Rails Fever Blog

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...

Using Claude on a greenfield Rails app is easy. The codebase is small, the conventions are Claude’s defaults, and there is almost no prior art to conflict with. Using Claude on a six-year-old Rails monolith...

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...

There is a pattern that plays out across Rails apps of every size. The app runs fine for months. Then something breaks — a gem vulnerability, a production error spike, a deploy that will not...