rails-patterns
Ruby on Rails framework patterns for Rails 7.1+ and 8.x apps. Covers the directory contract, skinny controllers with service objects, form objects, query objects, idiomatic ActiveRecord, background jobs, ViewComponent, Hotwire, and the Rails 8 Solid stack.
- Kind
- Skill
- Works with
- Claude Code, Codex
- Languages
- Ruby
- Source
- affaan-m/ECC @ d3b8a3e90890
- Path
- skills/rails-patterns/SKILL.md
- License
- MIT
- Jobs
- Review
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# Rails Patterns Framework patterns for modern Ruby on Rails applications (Rails 7.1+ and 8.x). Rails is opinionated by design; these are the patterns the community has converged on for apps that stay maintainable past the 50-model mark. This skill is the "how." For the "what" and "when" (the decisions about which pattern to reach for), see the Ruby patterns rules — `rules/ruby/patterns.md` in this repository, installed as `rules/ecc/ruby/patterns.md`. ## When to Activate - Building a Rails application (full-stack, API-only, or hybrid) - Reviewing a PR that touches `app/` or `config/` - Generating models, controllers, services, or jobs - A controller action grows past ~10 lines - A model file grows past ~200 lines - ActiveRecord queries start appearing in controllers or views ## Core Concepts ### The directory contract Rails apps follow a predictable structure. Add directories deliberately, not casually. ``` app/ models/ ActiveRecord models. Persistence and domain logic close to the data. controllers/ HTTP request handling. Thin orchestration only. views/ ERB templates. No business logic. …