rails-rules

rails-rules is a cursor rule for Cursor from beel-collab/presets.dev. It costs 0 tokens per session (1,023 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of file-aware instructions for building Rails applications with models, controllers, parameters, and background jobs. Rails is a web framework for Ruby.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding or changing Rails models, controllers, services, views, background jobs, or tests.
Why use it?
It helps an agent place business logic in the right layer and handle authorization, input validation, database access, and jobs consistently.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: a Cursor rule (.mdc). Also seen: mentions Codex; mentions Cursor.

Good fit Use it when adding or changing Rails models, controllers, services, views, background jobs, or tests.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/beel-collab/presets.dev/rails-rules
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/beel-collab/presets.dev

Made for: Cursor.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 1,023 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00000 $0.01023
Opus 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00409
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00205
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00102

Measured today against content hash eccf49806278, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rails-rules scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured today.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

cursor/rails/rails-rules.mdc · 100 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 100 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Rails Rules for Cursor: Models, Strong Params and Jobs

Install

Install the native export at .cursor/rules/rails-rules.mdc. Copy that export, not this catalog file. Catalog fields such as tools and author are for presets.dev. Install one skill file per name. Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Codex, Antigravity CLI, and Devin can all read .agents/skills, so a second copy with the same name collides.

Rails Rules for Cursor: Models, Strong Params and Jobs

File-scoped Cursor rule for Rails. It attaches when a matching file is in context.

Updated for Rails 8.1.4.1, Nov 2026

Do not upgrade dependencies or the framework version unless the task asks.

Rails 8.1.4.1 is the current 8.1 security release. Stay on the version in the Gemfile. 8.1's job continuations, structured events, and local CI are available when the app is already on 8.1. Read an existing model and controller before you add one.

Project shape

A controller authorizes, permits parameters, and calls a model or a service object the app already uses. Fat controllers that contain queries and mailers are not the pattern to extend. Views do not query.

Strong parameters list the keys. permit! is a bug on a public action. A nested attribute is permitted only when the user may set it.

Models and queries

Validations protect invariants. A database unique index backs a uniqueness validation. Associations that a page walks are included or preloaded. A bullet or a query-count test is how you see an N+1. An unindexed foreign key on a big table is a review.

A callback that hides a write is hard to test. Prefer an explicit method when the project does not already use that callback.

Jobs

Passing an Active Record instance to a job is normal. GlobalID stores the model name and id, and the job loads the record again when it runs. Do not tell the author to pass only ids when the app already passes records.

A retry can run the same side effect twice. A continuation resumes interrupted work. It does not make a charge or a mail idempotent. Guard those effects with a key or a state check the app already uses. Structured events follow the logger the app already configured.

Read the full file on GitHub · 100 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. today First seen · 100 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A eccf49806278

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rails-rules is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository beel-collab/presets.dev (3 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,023 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-11-13.

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