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How To Connect Claude Code to Your Rails Models with MCP Servers
If you're using Claude Code (Anthropic's CLI coding assistant), you've probably hit this wall: your AI pair-programmer can read your code, run your tests, and e…
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Apr 22, 2026
Claude Code Configurations Every Rails Engineer Should Use
If you've tried Claude Code on a large Rails codebase, you've probably noticed the gap between the demos and reality. The demos show Claude refactoring a 50-lin…
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Apr 15, 2026
Defending Your Rails App: Enabling Dependency Cooldowns to Prevent Supply Chain Attacks
On March 31, 2026, a North Korean state actor hijacked the npm account of an Axios maintainer and published two backdoored versions of one of the world's most p…
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Apr 06, 2026
Setting Up Your Ruby on Rails Monolith for AI Development
Introduction The AI revolution has arrived, and it's transforming how developers work with codebases. For teams maintaining large Rails monoliths with millions …
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Feb 19, 2026
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Supercharging Rails: Enabling Ruby's YJIT Compiler in Production
In recent years, the Ruby community has eagerly awaited the introduction of the YJIT (Just-In-Time) compilation engine, a feature that promised to significantly…
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Mar 28, 2024
Ruby on Rails: Big Data Tips and Tricks
Big data processing is an essential aspect of modern web applications. Ruby on Rails, a popular web development framework, is often challenged when dealing with…
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Jul 23, 2023
How To Set Up Datadog for PHP Applications on AWS EC2
Aging software applications often include many years of nuanced business logic. And the smallest of changes can easily cause unintended consequences.
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Mar 18, 2023
Using Elastic Cloud To Manage AWS CloudWatch Logs
Introduction AWS and Elastic have had a complicated relationship since Elastic's inception, and in the last several years things have only heated up. In 2019, E…
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Aug 24, 2021
Using Sinatra to Mock Shopify API Calls in Rails Test Suites
Introduction Designing a good test suite is critical to the development of a reliable application, but it involves constant decisions about how closely to repli…
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Apr 23, 2021
Our RuboCop Configuration for Successful Rails Projects
After over 8 years in development, the Ruby linting gem RuboCop has finally released version 1.0 and with it a host of new features, style configurations, and m…
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Feb 09, 2021
Most Common Types of Technical Debt in Rails
The majority of the Rails custom software development work we do here at NextLink Labs deals with rehabilitating older projects that are overwhelmed with techni…
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Jan 12, 2021
6 Things to Do When Inheriting Legacy Rails Apps
Introduction Rails version 1.0 is approaching its 15 year anniversary, and there’s reason to celebrate the framework's progress.
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Oct 12, 2020