skills

Design and review Rails applications using Vanilla Rails philosophy from 37signals/Basecamp. Emphasizes thin controllers, rich domain models, and avoiding unnecessary service layers. Use when analyzing Rails codebases, reviewing PRs, or refactoring toward simpler architecture. Triggers on "service layer", "service object", "thin controller", "rich model", "vanilla rails", "dhh style", "over-engineering", "unnecessary abstraction".

Configure recommended Rails development dependencies. Checks for essential gems like strong_migrations, herb, bullet, and letter_opener. Provides installation and configuration guidance.