Since we founded makandra 15 years ago, we’ve worked on hundreds of Rails projects. Now we’re turning that experience into a new service for your app’s long-term health.
Rails LTS Active Maintenance keeps your Rails app secure and performant for a fixed monthly price, so your team can focus on building.
Read more about how and why on our blog:
https://makandra.de/articles/active-maintenance-for-rails-776
The team behind Hardcover.app moved away from Next.js + React and back to Rails with Inertia.js.
They write honestly about performance, speed, and mental overhead and why Rails now fits their team and product better.
Read the post:
https://hardcover.app/blog/part-1-how-we-fell-out-of-love-with-next-js-and-back-in-love-with-ruby-on-rails-inertia-js
RubyUI offers accessible, customizable UI components. All components are built with Phlex.
No extra dependencies, just copy & paste into your app.
Sorbet now (experimentally) supports inline RBS comments. This way you can write standard RBS directly in your Ruby code
No more sig {} blocks, no external .rbs files.
Which LLM writes the best Ruby code?
Oskars Ezerins has built LLM Benchmarks: an open-source tool to test how GPT-4, Claude, and others perform on real-world Ruby and Rails tasks.
https://benchmarks.oskarsezerins.site
Which model performs best for your Ruby work?
Rails World 2025 was a blast – great talks, great people, and great energy.
We had the chance to talk to so many of you at our booth. A huge thank you to the Rails Foundation and AmandaPerino for the perfect organization, and to everyone who stopped by our booth!
We’ve collected our impressions, highlights & photos in a short recap:
👉 https://makandra.de/articles/recap-rails-world-2025-756
Using open-source in closed-source projects?
Make sure your dependencies don’t come with legal baggage.
This post shows how to use license_finder to validate licenses automatically and stay compliant.
👉 Details: https://makandracards.com/makandra/481903-automatically-validating-dependency-licenses-license
Tired of noisy diffs from structure.sql in Rails?
We explain why it happens, when to use it over schema.rb, and how to make your SQL schema Git-friendly – with or without tooling.
Read on: https://makandracards.com/makandra/625028-rails-keeping-structure-sql-stable-developers
#RubyOnRails #PostgreSQL #DevTips #makandra
Would you buy a product that explicitly advertises its AI function?
A new study shows: many wouldn’t – even if it’s better or cheaper.
The "with AI" label may hurt more than help.
Do you agree? How do you feel about tools or content with AI?
👉 Source: https://futurism.com/the-byte/study-consumers-turned-off-products-ai
Need full-text search in Rails without extra gems?
This guide shows how to implement multi-column, ranked search using just PostgreSQL + ActiveRecord.
Stemming, ranking, boosting, indexing – no gem needed.
👉 https://makandracards.com/makandra/624991-rails-postgresql-full-text-search-gem
