Ruby on Rails

The framework that set the standard

Ruby on Rails popularized convention over configuration: instead of deciding every architectural detail, the team follows patterns the framework has already settled and spends its energy on what is specific to the business. Migrations, ORM, queues, testing and code generators come built in. Much of what we now expect from a modern web framework, including Laravel itself, owes something to choices Rails made first.

Rails is not our first pick for new projects: that role belongs to Laravel. It is, however, a constant presence in our maintenance and rescue work. We take over Rails applications that lost their original team, upgrade outdated framework and Ruby versions, cover legacy code with tests and bring delivery pace back to products that had stalled. Knowing the framework's conventions well is what makes that work predictable.

If your application runs on Rails, rewriting it just to switch stacks rarely makes sense. The framework is actively maintained, with security patches and a mature community. Our criterion is total cost: when upgrading and evolving solves the problem, that is what we recommend; when a rewrite is justified, we say so and plan a gradual migration instead of betting the product on a big-bang switch.

• Maintenance and evolution of Rails applications
• Rescuing projects without their original team
• Ruby and Rails version upgrades
• Test coverage for legacy code
• Gradual migration to another stack