Ruby

Rails development for products that value iteration speed

Ruby on Rails still delivers one of the best feature-per-engineer-hour ratios in web development, and thousands of successful products run on it. We build new Rails features, maintain mature codebases, and execute the framework upgrades teams keep postponing.

Rapid iterationMature codebasesRails upgrades
Quick answer

Ruby on Rails development: rapid product iteration, feature work on existing Rails apps, and upgrades that keep mature codebases healthy.

Great Rails apps age into risky Rails apps

A Rails app that shipped fast five years ago often carries the bill today: outdated Rails versions blocking security patches, test suites too slow to run, and gems abandoned upstream. None of that means rewriting; it means disciplined maintenance that most teams struggle to prioritize.

What we build with Ruby

  • Feature development on existing Rails applications
  • Rails and Ruby version upgrades executed incrementally
  • Test suite repair and speedup so CI becomes useful again
  • Performance work: query tuning, caching, background job hygiene

How we work

  1. Stabilize the test suite before touching risky code

  2. Upgrade one version at a time with production traffic in mind

  3. Replace abandoned gems with maintained equivalents gradually

  4. Keep conventions Rails-native so future hires onboard fast

Typical stack

RubyRailsPostgreSQLSidekiqRSpec

Frequently asked questions

No. It remains a superb choice for product teams that value shipping speed and convention over configuration. Its hiring pool is smaller than JavaScript stacks, which is the honest trade-off to weigh.

Almost always. We have a standard playbook: green the test suite, upgrade stepwise, and ship continuously through the process. It is cheaper than the rewrite it usually gets compared against.