Moxace
Convention Over Configuration. AI-Assisted Delivery.

Ruby on Rails Development Company

AI-augmented Rails development for teams that value shipping speed and a codebase that still reads well in year five: senior Rails engineers, tested conventions, and 60 days of support included.

2010
Operating since
9,000+
Projects delivered
3,900+
Apps published
120+
AI products shipped

Trusted by the brands we build for

  • Etihad
  • Heineken
  • Marvel Studios
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Since 2010
Building Software
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9,000+
Projects Delivered
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3,900+
Apps Published
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25+
Countries Served

What our ruby on rails development covers

The full Rails lifecycle, practised as the framework intends: convention, tests, and taste.

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SaaS and product platforms

Multi-tenant products built on Rails' mature conventions: authentication, billing, background jobs, and admin tooling that arrive as strengths instead of build items.

  • ✓Multi-tenant data scoping
  • ✓Stripe-backed subscription billing
  • ✓Solid Queue or Sidekiq background jobs
  • ✓Action Mailbox and delivery flows
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Hotwire front ends

Modern, mostly-server Rails UIs with Turbo and Stimulus: app-like interactivity without a separate SPA codebase, and without the second team to maintain one.

  • ✓Turbo Streams and Frames
  • ✓Stimulus controllers where JS earns its place
  • ✓Server-rendered views by default
  • ✓Progressive enhancement as standard
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Rails upgrades and rescue

Rails apps several versions behind brought current incrementally, with tests around behaviour first, so upgrades stop being a reason to rewrite.

  • ✓Multi-version upgrade paths
  • ✓Rails 7 to 8 and Ruby upgrades
  • ✓Legacy test suite repair
  • ✓Dependency and security audit
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APIs and integrations

API-only Rails services and the integrations around them: webhooks, partner APIs, and payment flows with the idempotency Rails developers are trained to respect.

  • ✓API-mode Rails with versioned endpoints
  • ✓Webhook handling with verification
  • ✓Payment integration done idempotently
  • ✓Contract testing with partners
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Performance and scaling

Rails at real scale: query and N+1 elimination, caching layers, background job throughput, and database work, proven under load rather than asserted.

  • ✓Query optimisation and N+1 audits
  • ✓Fragment and low-level caching
  • ✓Job queue throughput tuning
  • ✓Load tests to stated targets
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Codebase audits and takeovers

Inherited a Rails app with no tests and a departure note for documentation? We audit it, stabilise it, and hand back a codebase your team can trust.

  • ✓Architecture and security audit
  • ✓Test coverage restoration
  • ✓Performance baseline and fixes
  • ✓Documentation and handover plan

What every engagement includes

Every Rails project ships with the following, agreed in writing before the first sprint begins.

Discovery workshop

A structured workshop maps your goals, users, and constraints into a scoped Rails roadmap with a fixed written quote before any sprint starts.

Named senior team

You get named, senior engineers with CVs you can review, not a rotating bench. The people in the kickoff are the people who ship.

Sprint demos every two weeks

Working builds are demoed live each cycle with CI running on every merge, so progress is visible in software, not slideware.

100% source-code ownership

All Rails source, configurations, designs, and documentation transfer to you on delivery with no licensing strings or vendor lock-in.

60 days of post-launch support

Engineering time is on standby for two months after go-live to triage defects, tune performance, and stabilise the release at no extra cost.

12 months of free updates

Compatibility updates, security patches, and framework upgrades ship free for a full year after handover.

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Where rails fits best

Rails is at its best on product companies that need to ship complete features fast and keep a tidy codebase while doing it: SaaS platforms, marketplaces, and internal products. Convention over configuration is a compounding asset for teams that will live with the code for years.

If your roadmap leans toward AI-native features, our Python development services team pairs with Rails as the serving layer, and for content-heavy estates our WordPress development services cover where a publishing platform beats a framework.

The stack behind our rails builds

Default choices, with reasons, stated plainly.

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Framework and language

Current Rails on current Ruby, with the defaults respected where they serve you and deviations documented in the architecture record, because convention is the framework's gift.

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Front end

Hotwire (Turbo and Stimulus) as the default interactivity model, with React islands reserved for genuinely complex client surfaces and imported as components, not a parallel app.

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Data and jobs

PostgreSQL with well-indexed ActiveRecord usage, Solid Queue or Sidekiq for background work, Solid Cache and Redis for caching, and migrations under version control.

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Testing and quality

RSpec or Minitest with thorough model and request coverage, system tests through Capybara and Playwright, RuboCop enforced in CI, and brakeman for security scanning.

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Deployment and observability

Kamal or containerised deploys in CI, PostgreSQL backups and rollback scripts tested, structured logs, error tracking, and performance monitoring (Skylight or Datadog) from launch.

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AI features

Rails-side LLM integration with background job processing, streaming responses through Turbo, and evaluation harnesses so AI quality is measured per release, not assumed.

How a rails project runs

Six stages, each with a sign-off gate, shaped by Rails' own rhythms.

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  1. 01

    Discovery

    Product model, data entities, integrations, and scale expectations mapped in a workshop, ending in a fixed written quote and a stack verdict including whether Rails fits.

    ✓ step 01 complete
  2. 02

    Domain and schema design

    Data model and domain boundaries designed first, because Rails makes schema changes easy and that ease is exactly why early modelling discipline matters.

    ✓ step 02 complete
  3. 03

    Foundation sprint

    Authentication, billing scaffolding, CI, and monitoring set up first. A walking skeleton deploys to staging in week one, with system tests guarding the core flows.

    ✓ step 03 complete
  4. 04

    Sprint delivery

    Two-week sprints with live demos on staging. RuboCop, tests, and security scans gate every merge, and feature flags keep releases reversible.

    ✓ step 04 complete
  5. 05

    Hardening and launch

    Load tests against stated targets, security review, cache and job tuning verified, then a staged cutover with monitoring and rollback rehearsed.

    ✓ step 05 complete
  6. 06

    Support and handover

    60 days of included support, 12 months of free updates, and documentation in the Rails idiom your next developers already know how to read.

    ✓ step 06 complete
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Why teams pick us for rails work

Rails rewards engineers with taste. Ours have shipped with it long enough to have some.

Idiomatic, tested rails

We build the way the framework intends, with tests guarding behaviour, so your codebase stays a pleasure to work in instead of a rebellion against the framework.

AI-augmented delivery

AI tooling accelerates tests, refactors, and review on our Rails projects while senior engineers own domain modelling and every merge to main.

Hotwire without hype

We use server-rendered views and Turbo where they genuinely simplify, and reach for JavaScript only where it earns its maintenance cost.

Upgrade veterans

We have carried Rails apps across many version boundaries without rewrites, and we treat a current, supported framework as part of your security posture.

Scaling that starts with queries

Most Rails performance problems are database problems. We profile and fix those first, which is cheaper and more durable than adding infrastructure.

Track record since 2010

9,000+ projects delivered across 25+ countries, including SaaS platforms that grew from first release to real scale on Rails.

Ruby on rails development FAQs

Rails excels for product companies building complete web applications fast: SaaS, marketplaces, and internal platforms where convention, mature libraries, and a single codebase beat assembling everything yourself. It fits less well for API-only microservice fleets or heavy custom front ends. We recommend honestly at discovery, including when another stack would serve you better.

$ moxace launch --now

Building a product the rails way?

Send us your product brief. We will tell you what Rails gets you, what it costs, and when it would be the wrong bet.

launch.sequence3 steps
  1. 01

    Share your idea

    a quick call, no deck required

  2. 02

    See the live demo

    every screen, admin to user

  3. 03

    Launch with source

    full code, your brand, your servers

$ moxace launch --now

Ready to Ship Fast Without the Mess?

Talk to our Rails team about a fixed-scope, AI-augmented build with 60 days of support and full source-code ownership.

launch.sequence3 steps
  1. 01

    Share your idea

    a quick call, no deck required

  2. 02

    See the live demo

    every screen, admin to user

  3. 03

    Launch with source

    full code, your brand, your servers

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