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

Vacation's over... now what?! blog.planetargon.com/blog/entries...

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.

Get a little head start on preparing for the new year. blog.planetargon.com/blog/entries...

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.

Take a little time to reflect on your year: blog.planetargon.com/blog/entries...

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.

If your app has survived more than one rewrite rumor, you’re our kind of developer. Learn how to improve performance, reliability, and team sanity—one practical tip at a time. Join us for free at www.maintainablerails.com.

Every mature Rails app leaves clues about where it wants to evolve. Slow spots. Old dependencies. Tests that flinch when touched. The end of the year is the perfect moment to listen. Improvement rarely starts with a rewrite; it starts with paying attention.

We don’t believe in pressure or panic. We believe in guidance. We believe in making complicated decisions feel lighter. If you feel more grounded after talking with us, then we’re doing it right.

A good partner doesn’t just fix code. They help you feel confident about where your app is headed. When you feel clear and supported, it’s easier to plan. Easier to decide. Easier to move forward. www.planetargon.com/contact

A good Rails app isn’t fragile. It’s layered. If your app feels unwieldy at the end of the year, that doesn’t mean it's broken. It means it has history. It has context AI can’t guess. The opportunity in 2026 isn’t to start over... It’s to make the next layer smarter than the last.

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Your app feels complicated because it’s been loved. If it were simple, it wouldn’t have survived this long. We’ve never met a mature codebase that didn’t have quirks, mysteries, or inside jokes. That’s part of the charm. And part of the opportunity.

This is the time of year when teams ask, “Do we need to just rebuild this thing next year?” Usually, the answer is no. Good software deserves a fresh plan, a few key upgrades, and renewed clarity to carry it forward without burning it down.

Something new is coming from the Planet Argon team. Introducing Commit Goods, official merch that gives back to open source projects. Stay tuned for Black Friday sales! commitgoods.com

You can’t catch someone up on 10 years of decisions in one meeting. And you shouldn’t have to. The right partner doesn’t rush into solutions. They spend time learning the rhythms, the patterns, the history. Because every system has a legacy worth understanding.

Small changes in your habits can keep your Rails app running years longer than you expected. The Maintainable Rails email course offers short, practical lessons. No fluff. No sales. Forever- free. maintainablerails.com

Another year is wrapping up. And somewhere, someone on your team is asking if it’s time to rewrite the app. It’s a familiar question. The clean slate always sounds appealing. But it also means starting over, relearning what you already know, and hoping it goes faster this time.

🎤 Productions Plus had a big idea: a custom tool to track the impact of face-to-face brand experiences—without invading anyone’s privacy. We designed it, built it, and launched it together.

Before you refactor, ask: What problem am I actually solving? Kent Beck’s Tidy First? reframes “cleanup” as a design choice—not a chore. Our take:

Our friends at FastRuby share how to spot the quiet warning signs of growing technical debt and how to address it strategically instead of reactively. blog.planetargon.com/blog/entries...

Most Rails apps don’t fail because the code is bad. They fail because no one remembers "why" it was written that way. Maintainable Rails helps your team document, refactor, and simplify—before “tech debt” becomes “tech regret.” 👉 Join our forever-free email series for more: maintainablerails.com

What’s better than shipping a project on time? Shipping on time AND leaving your team stronger than before. That’s what LabArchives discovered after working with us. ⭐

🎨 When Gnomon Workshop’s dev partner closed shop, they needed someone who could step in—fast—without breaking anything. We inherited their Rails app, sorted out the legacy handoff, and kept the creative flow going.

Our recent episode featuring Laravel's creator, Taylor Otwell, reminds us that software that lasts is usually simple. Check out The Register's take on this practical episode. www.theregister.com/2025/09/01/l...

We're looking forward to hearing Robby Russell moderate a panel with Rails & Ruby Core members at Rails World 2025 today!

It started as a simple solution to a very personal problem" 16 years later, Oh My Zsh has millions of users. Hear @robbyrussell on the power of open source & community.

West Dermatology’s site had a few "blemishes"—broken features, tech debt, and high-stakes enhancements. We cleaned things up, smoothed it out, and launched new features right on schedule.

Not sure if your Rails asset pipeline is a time bomb or just quirky? You’re not alone. We unpack the messy middle so you don’t have to: Sprockets → Propshaft → Webpacker → ??? Give it a good read: blog.planetargon.com/blog/entries...

🧠 Think your Rails app is “fine”? A code audit shows you where “fine” turns into fragile. Clarity > assumptions. (Especially when your roadmap depends on it.) Take a look at @robbyonrails.com post for our blog: blog.planetargon.com/blog/entries...

Day 1 as a dev shouldn’t feel like decoding a puzzle. No more “Can someone add me to this?” Check out this blog post about password managers. blog.planetargon.com/blog/entries...

Rails devs: ever stumble on a weird little method that made you rethink everything? Kabir Pathak lists 10 powerful (but often overlooked) Ruby/Rails methods that can help clean up your code fast. 💡 What’s one trick or method you swear by? 👇 🧵 medium.com/@kabirpathak...

Maintaining a legacy app isn’t just about fixing bugs—it’s about creating a sustainable foundation for future growth. Join our forever-free email course and learn practical tips from experts who’ve been in your shoes. 👉 maintainablerails.com

Rails in 2025: ⚡️ Fast 🧠 AI-friendly 💅 Hotwire got hotter 🧘 Devs slightly less burnt out Turns out Rails didn’t die, it just got smarter. Here’s how it’s aging like wine 👉https://medium.com/%40rubyroidlabs/ruby-on-rails-trends-2025-top-updates-to-boost-your-product-rubyroid-labs-207d3cdd87ec

Thanks to the team over at Thoughtbot for naming us one of their Top 5 Ruby on Rails consultancies in 2025. We’re in grood company! Check out what makes these Rails agencies great. 💡 thoughtbot.com/blog/top-5-r...

💎 Rails isn’t going anywhere—except up. #3 most loved language in the 2025 Pragmatic Engineer survey. Take a look at what else the dev community had to say: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-pragma...

PMs: "Why is this taking so long?" Devs: *quietly arguing with Copilot* Here are 7 AI tools suggestions by Ronak Bhatt making Rails teams faster, calmer, and (allegedly) happier in 2025: 👉 www.linkedin.com/pulse/top-7-... What AI tools (if any) are baked into your dev workflow rn?

Not every app diagram should need a legend, a compass, and divine intervention... We keep it clean so clients and teams actually get it. Check Micharl Kurt's blog on the subject: blog.planetargon.com/blog/entries...

🛠️ ARTICLE PICK OF THE WEEK: If you lead Rails teams, this one’s worth a read. Shivkant Dohaliya outlines a practical guide to building high-quality Rails applications, not just from a technical standpoint, but from a process and team-culture perspective. bit.ly/4nvVR5K

RPG Maker made game dev feel possible. We do the same for teams stuck in complex Ruby on Rails apps. At Planet Argon, we turn legacy into leverage.🎮➡️💼

Handing off your app without a proper demo is like tossing someone your car keys and yelling “good luck with the clutch.” This guide = your metaphorical glovebox manual. 🔗 blog.planetargon.com/blog/entries...

Will you be in Philadelphia for the final #RailsConf2025 this week? Our CEO, @robbyrussell, will be speaking tomorrow on: "The Rails Features We Loved, Lost, and Laughed At." If you’re attending, be sure to say hi—he’ll have Oh My Zsh and On Rails stickers with him!

Excited to welcome our Summer Digital Marketing Intern, Filipe Castro, to the Planet Argon team! 🚀 He’s joining us from Brazil and will be supporting content, social media, and research projects. Glad to have you aboard, Filipe! 🙌

Join the [free] Maintainable Rails e-course for real-world Rails advice. We’ll send you one tip, tutorial, or insight every email. No more. No less. maintainablerails.com

🚀 Just launched: The On Rails Podcast Hosted by Robby Russell and brought to you by the Rails Foundation, On Rails is a new podcast for the people behind the software that lasts. 🎧 Episode 1 is live—tune in! onrails.buzzsprout.com

Is it time to tidy your ApplicationController, which has become a huge repository (ahem, dumping ground) of methods devs thought they might need to access from different areas of the codebase? What to do...? We talk about this in our forever-free Maintainable Rails e-course. maintainablerails.com

🎉 We’re honored to be recognized on the 2025 @Inc 's Best Workplaces list for the third year in a row! This award reflects the incredible team we get to work with every day: curious, kind, talented, and always ready for a little remote team fun along the way. 🚀💚 blog.planetargon.com/blog/entries...

RYNO Strategic Solutions needed support and help with their internal tools. We stepped in to help them with their Ruby project, taking into account each of the evolving requirements as their needs grew. 🦏

"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data." -Sherlock Holmes blog.planetargon.com/blog/entries...