If You’ve Ever Started a “Simple” Rails App and Ended Up Rewriting the Universe, You’re Not Alone

The three easy steps (and the other 700) I opened a fresh Rails repo last week and told myself: “Auth, payments, admin - easy.” By lunch I had Devise plugged in, by dinner I had Pundit rules, and by midnight I had… a thousand-yard stare and six browser tabs arguing about JWT lifetimes. Somewh...Read more