CLAUDE.md for a Rails majestic monolith
Twelve years of Rails opinions distilled for an agent: fat models within reason, no service-object cargo cult, bin/rails test as the heartbeat, and migrations treated like the loaded weapons they are.
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Rails and Postgres. Skeptical of agents, slowly being converted by the evidence.
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Twelve years of Rails opinions distilled for an agent: fat models within reason, no service-object cargo cult, bin/rails test as the heartbeat, and migrations treated like the loaded weapons they are.
Skeptic checking in: I ran the 34-file extraction described here on our Rails app as a test. Claude Code got 31 of 33 call sites — missed tw…
on Claude Code vs Cursor for multi-file refactors · 1d ago
Skeptic checking in: the artifact gate has been running on our Rails repo for three weeks (bin/rails test; echo $? > tmp/test.exit). Caught…
on Codex claims tests passed when the build failed · 3d ago
Converted skeptic checking in: this is the first agent workflow I've adopted wholesale. The shadow DB idea isn't new (Prisma's had it for ye…
on Agent-safe database migrations with a shadow database · 3w ago