Ruby on Rails Development
Ruby on Rails expertise,
built to scale.
JetRockets is a Ruby on Rails development agency for teams running real production codebases. We ship new Rails 7 and 8 features, modernize legacy Rails 4-6 monoliths, optimize performance for high-traffic applications, and lead security and compliance efforts for SOC 2, HIPAA, and government clients. Co-founders are on every engagement. We have been Rails-only for 15+ years, NYC-based, women-owned, with 80+ verified Clutch reviews.
Our Services
Ruby on Rails development
fueling your success
Our Ruby on Rails services cover the full lifecycle of a Rails application: new product builds, legacy modernization, performance and security work, and long-term maintenance under SLA. Senior US-based Rails engineers lead every engagement.
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Custom Web Application Development
Production-grade Rails 7 and 8 applications built with Hotwire, Turbo, Stimulus, and modern deployment tooling. We design for testability, scalability, and security from day one. Used by founders shipping MVPs and enterprises shipping at scale.
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API Development and Integration
REST and GraphQL APIs, third-party platform integrations, and microservices architecture work for Rails monoliths that need to expose data cleanly. Includes integration with Stripe, Plaid, Salesforce, Snowflake, and AI providers including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.
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Legacy Modernization and Upgrades
Rails 4, 5, and 6 to Rails 7 or 8 migrations without downtime. Inherited codebase rescue. Test suite reconstruction. Documentation backfill. Performance benchmarking before and after, with measurable improvement targets agreed up front.
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Maintenance, Support, and SLA
Long-term Rails maintenance contracts with guaranteed response times for production issues. Security patching, dependency updates, infrastructure monitoring, and quarterly architecture review. Built for mission-critical applications running on Rails.
How We Work
Your gateway to
Rails excellence
A senior Rails team that operates the way mature engineering organizations expect. Predictable communication, real ownership, and modernization paths that do not break production.
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Senior Team, Co-founders Engaged
Every engagement is led by co-founders Igor Aleksandrov and Aleksei Solilin. Igor brings 20+ years of Rails architecture and AWS infrastructure and is a recognized Docker Captain. Aleksei leads frontend architecture with 15+ years of experience building component systems at scale. You are not staffed to a junior team.
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SLA and Communication Cadence
Weekly status reports, monthly architecture review, async daily updates through Slack or your tool of choice. Maintenance contracts include guaranteed response times for production issues. Milestone-based delivery is supported for government and enterprise procurement processes.
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Modernization Without Disruption
We modernize Rails applications incrementally, with measurable performance and security improvements agreed before work starts. The approach is built for systems that cannot go offline: phased upgrades, dual-running strategies, and audit trails maintained throughout.
Recent Projects
Showcasing
Rails excellence
Our work speaks for itself. Recent Ruby on Rails projects across travel tech, fintech, healthcare, edtech, and nonprofit sectors, with measurable outcomes documented in each case study.
Case Study · Travel Tech
Safari Portal
A dynamic itinerary builder for luxury safari operators. We applied Ruby on Rails to optimize user experiences and streamline operations with complex multi-tenant scheduling and real-time operator dashboards.
"JetRockets is so much more than a dev team. They are a core part of Safari Portal and of our family. They truly care about the product."
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Case Study · FinTech
Bastion
Tower fund services platform built on Rails. Complex financial workflows, secure data handling, and enterprise-grade reliability for investment management. Built to support regulatory compliance requirements common to financial services.
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Full Stack Capability
When Ruby
isn't enough
Rails sits at the center of what we do, and the surrounding stack is what makes Rails applications actually ship. Frontend frameworks, mobile platforms, search infrastructure, background processing, and modern deployment pipelines. Every Rails project includes the surrounding capabilities that production systems need.
Ruby on Rails
React
PostgreSQL
Hotwire
Sidekiq
React Native
Flutter
Node.js
TypeScript
GraphQL
Redis
Elasticsearch
Docker
Kubernetes
Kamal
AWS
DigitalOcean
Google Cloud
OpenAI
Anthropic
Stripe
Plaid
Solid Queue
Industries We Serve
Domain expertise
across sectors
Ruby on Rails works across regulated, compliance-heavy, and high-volume industries. Each engagement draws on direct experience in the sector, not generic engineering applied to an unfamiliar domain.
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eCommerce
Online marketplaces, inventory management, payment processing, and shopping cart systems built for scale. Experience with multi-tenant platforms, subscription billing, and high-traffic catalog architecture.
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FinTech
Payment platforms, trading systems, compliance tooling, and secure financial applications. Direct experience with SOC 2 and regulatory compliance requirements common to financial services, including audit trail design and data handling protocols.
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Legal
Case management systems, document automation, and practice management solutions. Workflow design for evidence handling, billing, and client confidentiality requirements.
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HealthTech
HIPAA-compliant platforms, patient portals, telehealth systems, and healthcare data infrastructure. Experience with security posture improvement for patient management systems and accessibility compliance for multi-state government health programs.
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Travel
Booking platforms, itinerary builders, travel agency software, and hospitality systems: multi-tenant scheduling, complex pricing logic, and real-time operator tooling at scale.
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Education
Learning management systems, EdTech platforms, student portals, and educational content delivery. Performance optimization for peak student usage and security work for platforms serving thousands of active users.
FAQ
Your queries
answered
Ruby on Rails is a web application framework used by Stripe, Shopify, GitHub, Airbnb, and many post-MVP startups that still run it in production. Rails optimizes for developer velocity, convention over configuration, and clean code that makes long-term maintenance affordable. For a business, that translates to faster feature delivery, lower long-term maintenance costs, and a hiring pool that continues to produce senior engineers in 2026. JetRockets has built on Rails exclusively for 15+ years.
Rails is the right choice when product velocity matters, when the application will need to evolve for years rather than months, and when the team values code that is readable, testable, and conventional. It pairs especially well with AI-assisted development workflows because the patterns are consistent across the ecosystem, which produces cleaner output from coding agents. For applications expected to run for five-plus years, Rails has the lowest total cost of ownership among mainstream web frameworks.
Yes. We offer long-term Rails maintenance contracts with guaranteed response times for production issues, scheduled security patching, dependency updates, infrastructure monitoring, and quarterly architecture review. SLAs are structured around the application's criticality, with response times defined by tier and reviewed annually.
Yes. Many of our engagements are hybrid, with our senior Rails team integrated alongside an in-house engineering team. We work inside your communication tools, attend your standups, and participate in your code review process. Our PMs coordinate directly with your engineering manager or CTO.
Travel tech, fintech, healthtech, edtech, legal tech, eCommerce, and nonprofit. Recent projects include Safari Portal (luxury travel), Bastion (fund services), and applications across patient portals, learning platforms, and financial workflow systems. See our case studies for detailed engagement outcomes.
Yes. Most of our modernization work is incremental, designed for systems that cannot go offline. The approach uses phased upgrades, dual-running strategies during the transition, and maintains full audit trails throughout. Common projects: Rails 4 to 5, 5 to 6, 6 to 7 upgrades; Ruby version upgrades; asset pipeline migration to Vite or esbuild; and dependency modernization for outdated gems. Performance and security improvement targets are agreed upon before work begins, with measurable before-and-after benchmarks.
Yes. Inherited codebase rescue is one of our most common engagement types. We start with a free Rails code audit covering architecture, performance, security, and test coverage, delivered as a written report in 2 to 3 days. From there, we agree on a stabilization plan, fix the most urgent issues first, backfill missing test coverage and documentation, and bring the codebase to a state where ongoing development is predictable. Most rescue engagements stabilize within 8 to 12 weeks.
Comprehensive security audits, vulnerability remediation, and compliance preparation for SOC 2 (Type I and Type II), HIPAA, PCI-DSS, and government accessibility standards including Section 508. The work includes static analysis (Brakeman, Bundler Audit), dependency vulnerability monitoring, secure authentication review (including Rodauth, Devise, and OAuth flows), data-handling protocol design, and audit-trail implementation. Compliance work is delivered alongside developer documentation that survives team transitions.
Yes. Many engagements pair Rails development with Fractional CTO leadership from co-founders Igor Aleksandrov and Aleksei Solilin. The Fractional CTO scope covers technical strategy, architecture review, hiring guidance, fundraising and M&A diligence support, and direct oversight of the development team. For founders without a technical co-founder, this is often the most efficient engagement structure.
Performance work follows a measurement-first approach. We benchmark the application's current state across response time, throughput, database query performance, and infrastructure cost. Common optimizations include N+1 query resolution, ActiveRecord index tuning, background job architecture (Sidekiq, Solid Queue), Redis caching strategy, Elasticsearch search performance, and infrastructure tuning across AWS, DigitalOcean, or Google Cloud. Engagements deliver documented before-and-after metrics for every change.
Yes. We build production AI features in Rails using Ruby_LLM, OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, and self-hosted models where data residency matters. Capabilities include retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), function calling and tool use, agent architectures, vector search via PostgreSQL pgvector or dedicated vector databases, and resilient AI client design for production reliability. See our engineering blog for our published work on AI agents in Ruby and resilient AI client architecture.
Our hourly rate is $100 per developer. The minimum engagement is $25,600. Most engagements run as monthly retainers covering a senior Rails developer, project management, and QA, with fixed-cost project pricing available for well-scoped work (typically in the $36k to $124k range). Pricing is published on our FAQ page because we believe pricing should be transparent. You own all code produced. There is no integration tax between strategy and build because both come from the same team.
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