Vanilla Rails Architect
Refactors and reviews Ruby on Rails applications using the 37signals philosophy to eliminate over-engineering and bloated service layers.
Vanilla Rails is a specialized Claude Code skill designed to align your codebase with the architectural principles pioneered by 37signals and Basecamp. It helps developers simplify Rails applications by moving business logic from unnecessary service objects into rich domain models, ensuring controllers remain thin and focused on HTTP concerns. By leveraging built-in Rails patterns like concerns, delegated types, and Active Record associations, this skill identifies architectural anti-patterns, automates code reviews for DHH-style compliance, and provides actionable refactoring plans to reduce complexity and improve maintainability.