Books, guides, and Rails Baseline
The Rails material I want close by when I’m building.
Rails Baseline, two full-length books, focused guides for webhooks and authentication, and the Personal Voice Kit. Six products built from work I’ve had to solve more than once.
The library
Six products, each with a different job.
Rails Baseline is for starting a new app. The books cover larger parts of the stack. The shorter guides are there when you only need help with one specific problem.
Production foundation
Rails Baseline
A production-ready Rails 8.1 SaaS foundation with authentication, billing, authorization, Hotwire, deployment, and clear patterns to build on.
Book + source
Build a SaaS App in Rails 8
Build a modern Rails SaaS from start to finish, with the working source and the decisions behind it.
Book
Realtime Rails
A practical guide to Turbo, Stimulus, and Action Cable for building realtime features in Rails.
Implementation guide
Webhooks in Rails
Receive, verify, store, retry, test, and debug webhooks without turning the integration into a mess.
Implementation guide
Simple Rails Auth
A focused guide to Rails' built-in authentication and the common ways to extend it.
Agent kit
Personal Voice Kit
A practical way to give Codex or Claude Code a reusable profile of how you actually write.
How it fits
Start broad. Get specific when you need to.Start the app.
Rails Baseline gives you a production-ready starting point with the Rails pieces I normally want in place before product work begins.
See the whole build.
The books go deeper: one walks through a Rails SaaS end to end, and the other focuses on realtime Rails with Turbo, Stimulus, and Action Cable.
Grab the smaller guide.
When the problem is webhooks, authentication, or getting an agent to write more like you, you can skip straight to that part.
Planned addition
Billing in Rails
Billing in Rails is the next guide I’m working on. The six products above are what the $199 library includes today.
Developer Library
Get the full library for $199.
Six finished products, available now through Gumroad.