Groundwork

Rails. Built to last.

Rails apps, APIs, and internal tools built to last. We ship full-stack products: from the database schema to the Hotwire UI. Fast, tested, deployed with Kamal.

Ruby on Rails Hotwire PostgreSQL API Integrations Internal Tooling Scheduled Jobs

Not just the front, not just an API. We take the whole thing.

Full-stack Rails

Schema design, business logic, background jobs, admin tooling, and a UI your team actually wants to open. Deployed with Kamal, monitored from day one.

Rails 8 PostgreSQL Kamal

Hotwire UI

Fast, reactive interfaces without the JavaScript overhead. Turbo Frames and Stimulus where they earn their place. No build pipeline complexity. No client-side state to debug at 2am.

Turbo Stimulus No SPA overhead

APIs that behave

Versioned, documented, and tested before they go anywhere near production. Whether a public API or a private integration layer, built to be extended, not rewritten.

REST GraphQL Documented

Internal tools

The dashboards, generators, and admin panels your team uses every day. We build internal tooling like it is a product, because slow internal tools are a real cost, just a hidden one.

Admin panels Dashboards Generators

Tested and deployed

A Rails app without tests is a time bomb. We write them, run them in CI, and ship with Kamal for zero-downtime deploys on your own infrastructure. No platform lock-in, no surprise bills.

RSpec CI/CD Zero-downtime

Background jobs

Sidekiq, Solid Queue, recurring tasks, retry logic, dead letter queues. The async layer that keeps your app responsive while the heavy lifting happens out of band.

Sidekiq Solid Queue Cron jobs

We are opinionated. This is what we run and why it matters for your product.

Ruby on Rails

$ rails new myapp --database=postgresql

create app/models/application_record.rb

create app/controllers/application_controller.rb

run bundle install

Your application is ready. Run bin/dev to start.

Writing Rails since before it was boring. Convention over configuration means more features, less arguing about structure.
Hotwire

React SPA

142kb JS bundle

Hotwire

Reads like Rails

Pages feel instant. Server stays in charge. Codebase stays readable six months later.
PostgreSQL

EXPLAIN ANALYZE SELECT * FROM users

WHERE created_at > NOW() - INTERVAL '7 days'

Index Scan on users (cost=0.00..8.40)

Rows Removed by Filter: 3

Planning Time: 0.12 ms

Execution Time: 0.00 ms

Proper indexing, full-text search, JSONB when needed. Schemas that survive the product changing direction.
Kamal

○ Building image

○ Pushing to registry

○ Running migrations

○ Zero-downtime swap

○ Health check passing

Your server, your control. No platform fees eating into your margins as you scale.
Sidekiq / Solid Queue

JOB QUEUE

ProcessPayment #1291

SendWelcomeEmail #1292

GenerateReport #1293

SyncWebhook #1294

Email, webhooks, imports, report generation. Reliable, observable, restartable. The work your users should not wait for.

Start

One conversation before anything else. We map what you are building, who it is for, and where the edges are. If the idea needs a rethink we say so now, not after the first sprint.

feat: user auth

feat: billing flow

fix: edge case

feat: dashboard

Build

Small PRs, daily movement, real code in staging fast. You see it working before it is finished. No big reveal at the end of a month.

Deploying to production

Health checks passing ✓

Ship

Kamal deploy, health checks, monitoring in place. We do not hand you a zip file. We hand you a live system with the runbook to keep it running.

After

We stay available. Not on retainer if you do not need it, but reachable. When something breaks at an inconvenient time, you have our number.

Got something to build?

Tell us what you are working on. We will tell you honestly whether we are the right fit.

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