The tools at a developer’s fingertips have come a long way. In the last couple of years, AI-powered assistants like ChatGPT and Cursor have transformed how we prototype features, write documentation, and even debug code. But AI isn’t a magic bullet—it’s a force multiplier. When combined with experienced human judgment, these tools can help agencies and solo developers increase efficiency, shorten turnaround times, and deliver higher-quality results to clients.

Scheduled tasks are a fact of life in any non-trivial Rails app—whether it’s sending out nightly digests, cleaning up stale data, or syncing with external APIs. If you’re using Heroku Scheduler to kick off these jobs, you’ve likely run into its limitations: fixed time windows, separate logging, and the hassle of managing multiple “one-off” dynos. In this article, I’ll show you how to consolidate your cron jobs into Sidekiq Cron, giving you unified monitoring, richer scheduling options, and the performance benefits of Sidekiq’s threaded workers.

It’s all too easy for ActiveRecord models to balloon into monolithic “God objects.” You start by adding a validation here, a callback there, maybe a little business logic in a class method—and before you know it, your User or Order model is hundreds of lines long, has dozens of dependencies, and is terrifying to test or extend.

APIs are the backbone of modern web applications, but Rails controllers can get unwieldy when you try to support multiple versions, complex parameter validation, or JSON representations that change over time. The Grape gem offers a lightweight, Rack-based DSL for building RESTful APIs in a clean, object-oriented way. Pair it with the grape-entity plugin, and you get Ruby classes that encapsulate your JSON representation, keeping your controllers thin and your business logic organized.

Working with a development agency or partner is not as easy as doing a Google Search, finding some devs, and kicking off. A lot of upfront work must go into making a final selection! In this article, we’ll review several key aspects of how Rails Agency works, discuss their importance when selecting a development partner, and how they help us to stay on-time and on-budget.

Knowing how to use testing frameworks is one of the most important skills any developer must learn. In particular with the Ruby programming language, testing is even more important because a compiler will not catch syntax errors or little slip ups! Such is life when using interpreted languages. Despite testing’s importance being obvious, it is surprising how many Ruby on Rails apps have deficient test coverage or no code coverage at all! Why is this?

Ruby’s Standard Library is full of many Objects that ship with just about any Object Oriented programming language. We have String, Hash, Array, Integer, and Float. However, there are several more “niche” Objects that many code schools and programming books overlook. In this article, I’m going to show off one of Ruby’s lesser utilized Objects: the Rational Class. What are they and what can you use them to do?

You have probably heard at least one I-hate-Monday joke. What if…you had the power to make your office a place where people are happy to come to work?

Did you know that most of your favorite websites use the web application Ruby on Rails? Among them are Twitter, Airbnb, Bloomberg, GitHub, GoodReads, Groupon, Jobster, Sound Cloud, and Spree Commerce. Are you planning a website or online component for your small business? Read on for the reasons why these companies prefer Ruby on Rails.

Recently we were working on a project in which we needed a subscription based payment system to manage different user plans. This was an MVP so we did not necessarily want to roll our own subscription system if we didnt have to. Enter Koudoku, a Rails based subscription engine that integrates into Stripe out of the box and uses Stripe Event to hook into Stripe’s beatifully simple subscription plan system.