Engineering decisions for mature Rails systems
This blog is about engineering decisions in mature Rails codebases. I write from experience—debugging production issues, simplifying systems, and choosing boring tools that survive.
I am also building RailsRevelry, a publication focused on Rails internals, debugging, and how Rails actually works under the hood.
Featured
When a Rails Object Needs Types but Not a Table
How ActiveModel::Attributes gives tableless Rails objects type casting, defaults, and a Rails-native attribute system, and where the API still needs more support.
Recent Posts
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Why Your Rails Code Keeps Running After redirect_to
A small Rails debugging note about why redirect_to performs a response but does not stop Ruby control flow.
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Ruby Beyond the Server
A collection of the various Ruby libraries and execution environments for building desktop, mobile, terminal, game, and browser applications.
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How Rails Dispatches a Request to a Controller, and Why That Layer Matters
A shorter companion piece to the latest RailsRevelry article on the hidden dispatch layer between route matching and controller action execution.
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The Execution Boundary in Rails
What changes when Rails work leaves the request-response path and starts running later, elsewhere, or under a different failure model.
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How Rails Routing Works, and Why That Boundary Matters
A shorter companion piece to the latest RailsRevelry article on how Rails matches requests, extracts params, and dispatches controller actions.