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Rails is the framework Shopify, GitHub, Basecamp, Stripe, and Airbnb were built on. It is not a legacy choice — it is a pragmatic choice. Convention over configuration means fewer decisions per feature. Active Record means fewer ORM headaches. Active Job means queues just work. Hotwire means you can ship a SPA-feeling app without a SPA framework. For a small team that needs to ship product, Rails is still fastest.

The challenge is finding Rails engineers in 2026. The recruiting market shifted to JS/TS years ago. Bootcamps shifted to React. Rails developers exist but are often senior, expensive, and busy. Junior Rails engineers tend to write code that bypasses Active Record idioms — service objects everywhere, no callbacks, no scopes — because they learned Rails alongside DDD blog posts.

Rails 7 changed a lot. Import maps replaced webpacker. Hotwire (Turbo + Stimulus) replaced most JavaScript SPAs. CSS bundling moved to Propshaft. ActiveRecord encryption arrived. Solid Queue, Solid Cache, and Solid Cable can replace Redis dependencies. Engineers who learned Rails on 5.x write Rails 7 code that ignores these improvements.

Deployment changed too. Kamal (formerly MRSK) deploys Rails to plain Docker on your own servers. Heroku still works but is expensive at scale. Fly.io is the modern alternative. Each has trade-offs — Kamal is cheapest but requires DevOps; Fly.io is simplest but more expensive. A senior Rails engineer picks the right one and configures it properly.

AsyncForge has senior Rails engineers shipping modern Rails apps. Submit feature work, Hotwire refactors, Sidekiq jobs, or a full Rails app build. Light 4 days, Standard 48 hours, Pro 1 day. We write System Specs in RSpec, document architectural decisions, and leave the codebase better than we found it.