One small change at a time will make the biggest difference in the long-term health of your Rails app.
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Vault episode with a practical idea worth stealing: a TECHNICAL_DEBT.md file in your git repo. Carlos Blé shares why naming technical debt explicitly rather than letting it hide changes how your whole team relates to it 🎧 maintainable.fm/episodes/car...
The rewrite instinct kicks in right when the solo dev is unavailable, and everything grinds to a halt. But a rewrite doesn't transfer knowledge. It abandons it. What that system needs is some backup. Do you have a plan in place?
📊 Only a few days left to participate in the 2026 Ruby on Rails Community Survey. Give your input and share it with your team! railsdeveloper.com/survey/
The 2026 Rails Survey has responses from developers in over 30 countries so far. The US is leading, but Germany, Canada, the UK, Brazil, and France aren't far behind. Rails is a global community. The survey should reflect that. Add your perspective! railsdeveloper.com/survey/
2026 Ruby on Rails Community Survey
The 2026 Ruby on Rails Community Survey is now open. Add your voice to the community data. Brought to you by Planet Argon.
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Rails 8 adoption is moving faster than the usual "everyone's stuck on old versions" narrative suggests. In early responses to the 2026 Rails Community Survey, Rails 8.1 is already the most-used version. The community is keeping up. What version are you on? railsdeveloper.com/survey/
2026 Ruby on Rails Community Survey
The 2026 Ruby on Rails Community Survey is now open. Add your voice to the community data. Brought to you by Planet Argon.
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Every Rails developer has an opinion about JavaScript. Early 2026 survey data is starting to show where things actually stand - and the Hotwire vs. React debate is still very much alive. Which side are you on? Survey closes July 3! railsdeveloper.com/survey/
2026 Ruby on Rails Community Survey
The 2026 Ruby on Rails Community Survey is now open. Add your voice to the community data. Brought to you by Planet Argon.
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83% of Rails developers in this year's survey (so far) are working on a monolith. Only 3.5% on microservices. Rails teams may have never bought the microservices hype in the first place. Add your take - survey closes July 3: railsdeveloper.com/survey/
2026 Ruby on Rails Community Survey
The 2026 Ruby on Rails Community Survey is now open. Add your voice to the community data. Brought to you by Planet Argon.
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If you’ve followed us for a while, you’ve probably heard our perspective on long-lived Rails apps. Maintainable Rails is a short email course from Robby Russell sharing practical ideas for refactoring, upgrades, and keeping mature Rails apps healthy. maintainablerails.com
Maintainable Rails: Free Email Course for Developers | Give Your App Its Second Act
A free email course for Ruby on Rails developers who want to evolve their existing apps without a rewrite. Learn practical ways to make your Rails app faster, safer, and ready for its second act.
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Early data from the 2026 Rails Survey shows that 54% of Rails developers say AI tools are regularly integrated into how they work. Only 2.4% have evaluated them and decided not to use them. The "Will Rails developers adopt AI?" conversation is happening- add your take. railsdeveloper.com/survey/
2026 Ruby on Rails Community Survey
The 2026 Ruby on Rails Community Survey is now open. Add your voice to the community data. Brought to you by Planet Argon.
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📊 The 2026 Ruby on Rails Community Survey is open! 9 years of tracking the Rails community, and we need your input to keep it going. Takes just a few minutes. Please share with your team! railsdeveloper.com/survey/
2026 Ruby on Rails Community Survey
The 2026 Ruby on Rails Community Survey is now open. Add your voice to the community data. Brought to you by Planet Argon.
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The codebase doesn't care how it got written. Neither does the problem it's solving. Our CEO, @RobbyRussell, shares some thoughts on the AI debate and why the honest answer is messier than either side admits. robbyonrails.com/articles/202...
Your codebase doesn't care how it got written
[10 min read] Every design team I’ve worked with has had the same complaint about clients. “They sent over a PowerPoint with mockups.” Eye rolls. Crossed a...
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Maintainable Rails is a short email series from Robby Russell with practical lessons on refactoring, upgrades, and steady progress in long-lived codebases. Built for busy Rails developers. Join the course! maintainablerails.com
Maintainable Rails: Free Email Course for Developers | Give Your App Its Second Act
A free email course for Ruby on Rails developers who want to evolve their existing apps without a rewrite. Learn practical ways to make your Rails app faster, safer, and ready for its second act.
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Our teammates Evaldo Klock and Jaison Coelho are having a blast at Tropical on Rails in Brazil this week!
What starts as simple reporting can quietly become the slowest part of a Rails app. Join our 30-minute Planet Argon LIVE webinar with Sergiu Truta next week to learn how to build efficient, maintainable reports with Rails. bit.ly/4bgqAzP
We talk a lot about helping Rails apps evolve instead of starting over. This e-course shows how. Join us! maintainablerails.com
Maintainable Rails: Free Email Course for Developers | Give Your App Its Second Act
A free email course for Ruby on Rails developers who want to evolve their existing apps without a rewrite. Learn practical ways to make your Rails app faster, safer, and ready for its second act.
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Some software can’t be paused. When your system is in daily use, t The work has to happen while everything keeps moving. With Walkenhorst’s, we helped prepare their Rails app for its next chapter without slowing down operations or disrupting everyday users. www.planetargon.com/work/walkenh...
Our CEO, Robby Russell, built a tool called Clarion that analyzes a ticket and surfaces relevant context from Jira, Confluence, & GitHub. Then it suggests clarifying questions before development even starts. He wrote up the full breakdown on his blog, Robby on Rails. robbyonrails.com/articles/202...
Building a RAG Tool in Ruby 4: What Actually Happened
[30 min read] One of my priorities this quarter was running a few AI pilot experiments. This was one of them. When I mentioned the project to a teammate, h...
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A rewrite was planned. Newspaper Club was preparing for a Shopify migration, and their internal dev team was transitioning out. Meanwhile, their Rails app still needed to work. So they brought us in to keep things steady. But was a migration really necessary? www.planetargon.com/work/newspap...
What questions "should" we be asking about maintaining mature apps? Our CEO, Robby Russell, recently appeared on the "Overcommitted Podcast" to chat about sustaining software projects, killer docs/testing habits, and nailing work-life balance in tech. www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1cO...
Sustainability in Software Development: Robby Russell on Tech Debt and Engineering Culture
In this episode of the Overcommitted Podcast, hosts Brittany, Bethany, and Erika dive deep into the realities of software development with guest Robby Russell. They explore the critical challenges of…
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Ruby 4.0 marks a new chapter for the ecosystem. For teams running mature Rails apps, it’s also a moment to ask: Is our application ready for its next act? A code audit helps teams understand what's happening in the codebase without guesswork. blog.planetargon.com/blog/entries...
Ruby on Rails Code Audits: 8 Steps to Review Your App
Check the health and security of your Rails app with these quick guide to Ruby on Rails Code audits. These are the steps to take to review your ruby on rails...
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Your Rails app doesn’t need a fresh start. It needs consistent care. The Maintainable Rails email course delivers one small, useful improvement each week. You'll learn to ask the right questions to make the simplest changes that make the biggest impact... and go from there! maintainablerails.com
Maintainable Rails: Free Email Course for Developers | Give Your App Its Second Act
A free email course for Ruby on Rails developers who want to evolve their existing apps without a rewrite. Learn practical ways to make your Rails app faster, safer, and ready for its second act.
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We’re not here to tear things down or declare everything broken. We believe in stewardship, helping teams evolve the systems that matter. Good software doesn’t need a rescue. It needs a thoughtful path forward.
Support shouldn't feel like outsourcing. We want collaboration to feel natural. Like having another steady pair of hands... not a vendor across the ocean. When communication feels easy and progress feels shared, the work moves more steadily.
We’ve met teams who love their app but dread touching certain parts of it. You deserve to feel the opposite: That your app is sturdy, understood, and ready for what’s next. Our favorite moment is when a team looks at their codebase with pride again.