The Rails Way in 2026 We had an interesting discussion at the Arkency weekly call today. The topic was how to define “the Rails Way” in 2026. The discussion branched in many directions, but I want to capture the result here. We get to see a lot of Rails repositories. There’s a pattern that shows up so consistently that I think it now deserves to be called “the Rails Way” of 2026: A fat model with



