Tbh I had no idea this was even a thing until recently. I've been working with Rails for a while now and somehow never came across it. So let me explain it the way I understood it. You know how we normally do associations in Rails, User has many Posts, Post belongs to User. Two different models, two different tables. Simple. But what if a model needs to reference itself? Like same table, same mode
The setup I was building an AI article generator. Four phases: Research — pull live SERP data, extract entities, score competitors Brief — Claude Sonnet writes a structured brief from the SERP Draft — section-by-section drafting in a fixed persona voice Polish — adversarial review pass that flags AI tells End-to-end: 6–8 minutes. Each phase: 60–180 seconds. Multiple LLM calls per phase. Token st
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Why I built another Ruby test runner inspired by Playwright Test Ruby already has great testing tools. If you are building Rails applications today, you probably use one of these combinations: RSpec + Capybara Minitest + Capybara Rails system tests Maybe Selenium, Cuprite, Ferrum, or Playwright through Ruby bindings These tools are mature, battle-tested, and widely used. So the natural question