Guides

Practical writing about Rails app health — by a developer who got tired of finding the same problems by hand.

• The pre-launch Rails health checklist

  Four cuts of the same checklist, depending on what 'launch' actually means for you — going live, handing off to a client, getting acquired, or being on call for the first time.

  By Rob Bazinet · May 15, 2026 · 6 min read

• Planning a Rails version upgrade (without burning a quarter)

  The work that determines whether your Rails upgrade ships in two weeks or two quarters happens before you change the Gemfile.

  By Rob Bazinet · May 14, 2026 · 6 min read

• What to do with bundler-audit's output (after the panic)

  bundler-audit just told you about 14 CVEs. Most of them are not the same kind of problem. Here's how to actually triage them.

  By Rob Bazinet · May 13, 2026 · 6 min read

• Auditing a Rails app you just inherited

  A working developer's playbook for the first day on someone else's Rails repo — what to check, in what order, and what to do with what you find.

  By Rob Bazinet · May 12, 2026 · 6 min read