Nikita Sinenko

Ruby has two serious gems for talking to Claude: the official anthropic SDK and ruby_llm, the community multi-provider framework.

Scheduled work is where Rails apps quietly collect loose ends.

I wanted the smallest Gemini agent I would be willing to put inside a Rails app.

The first version of an agent job usually looks harmless.

The first Rails agent I would trust is not a clever prompt.

The Odoo API is useful because the web client is not a boundary.

Xero integrations changed materially in March 2026.

TimescaleDB is the right choice in a Rails app when your data is append-only, time-indexed, and grows predictably - logs, metrics, financial ledgers, IoT events.

Solid Queue is the default I would start with for ordinary Rails 8 jobs.

The first time a Solid Queue job failed in a real app, the missing piece was not another worker.