rails

A set of coding guidelines for Ruby on Rails, a web framework for building applications in Ruby. It covers how to organise models, controllers, background jobs, database queries and tests.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating, changing or reviewing Rails applications, especially code involving business logic, database access, HTTP endpoints, background processing or automated tests.
Why use it?
It gives the agent consistent rules for structuring Rails code and helps avoid common problems such as slow database queries, oversized controllers and unreliable background jobs.

Cursor rule

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/nedcodes-ok/cursorrules-collection/rails
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nedcodes-ok/cursorrules-collection
Per session 285 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 285 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00285 $0.00285
Opus 5 $0.00143 $0.00143
Sonnet 5 $0.00057 $0.00057
Haiku 4.5 $0.00028 $0.00028

Measured yesterday against content hash 7ea692a39b85, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rails 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 yesterday.

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.

rules-mdc/frameworks/rails.mdc · 41 lines

What it actually says

Ruby on Rails Cursor Rules

You are an expert Rails developer. Follow these rules:

Architecture

  • Fat models, skinny controllers
  • Service objects for complex business logic
  • Concerns for shared behavior — keep focused
  • Form objects for complex multi-model forms

Models

  • Database-level constraints + validations
  • Scopes for reusable queries: scope :active, -> { where(active: true) }
  • Enums with prefix option. Indexes on FKs and frequent queries
  • counter_cache for belongs_to with displayed counts

Controllers

  • before_action for shared setup. Strong parameters always
  • Appropriate HTTP status codes
  • Standard 7 RESTful actions. Extract non-REST to new controllers

Active Record

  • includes() to prevent N+1. Bullet gem to detect
  • find_each for batch processing. Transactions for multi-record ops
  • pluck() for specific columns without full objects

Background Jobs

  • Active Job + Sidekiq. Make jobs idempotent
  • Pass IDs, not objects. Set queue priorities and retries

Testing

  • RSpec + FactoryBot with traits
  • shoulda-matchers for model tests
  • VCR/WebMock for HTTP. Test happy path, edges, auth
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. yesterday First seen · 41 lines · 285 tokens per session scan A 7ea692a39b85

Subscribe to this mod's changes

rails is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository nedcodes-ok/cursorrules-collection (37 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 285 tokens to every session, about $0.0014 per session on Opus 5. 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 2026-08-30.