Rails LTS Active Maintenance – We keep your Rails app running smoothly

Many teams know this situation: your application works, but updates are becoming increasingly complicated, the code is confusing, and new team members are reluctant to tackle certain areas. But the application is business-critical and it works as it is. That's exactly what makes it so difficult to tackle.

We know this feeling. We have been working with Ruby on Rails for over 15 years, and we have seen – and rescued – quite a few projects like this. What we noticed time and again was that there comes a point when the team is overwhelmed by the mounting technical debt. At this point, someone is needed who really knows the project, understands it, and can keep it running smoothly in the long term.

Another scenario: You want to improve the performance of your app, but you've reached your limits or don't have your own development team. You're looking for a simple solution to improve your application and keep it stable, but you simply don't have the capacity to do it yourself.

This is where Rails LTS Active Maintenance comes in. We take over the ongoing maintenance and modernization of your Rails application before it becomes critical. We ensure that your system remains stable and support you in the long term to prevent technical debt from arising in the first place.

With Rails LTS, we help companies continue to run older versions of Rails securely. But projects that are actively being developed need more than just patches. They need active care: With Rails LTS Active Maintenance, we take on long-term responsibility, maintain dependencies, modernize step by step, and thus preserve maintainability across multiple Rails versions.

At makandra, we grew up with Rails. For a decade and a half, we have been developing applications, libraries, and tools related to the framework. We are members of the Rails Foundation and maintain open-source projects such as Unpoly, capybara lockstep, and, of course, Rails LTS. We live and breathe Rails in all versions and with all its peculiarities.

With Active Maintenance, you benefit from a partner who keeps your Rails application stable over the long term and prevents technical debt from piling up. Your code stays maintainable and your system remains reliable, without recurring large-scale fixes or risky quick solutions. This gives you control over your technical foundation and the freedom to focus on your product and your team.

Every Active Maintenance partnership begins with a free review of your source code. You will receive an honest assessment of your project’s condition and a recommendation for the most suitable maintenance plan.

In some cases, applications have grown rapidly or been neglected for so long that a targeted technical rescue is needed before ongoing maintenance can begin. We can handle that for you as well. After analyzing the code, we know exactly which steps are required to put your application back on a stable foundation.

Your application is in reliable hands with us, without the need for monthly coordination. You have a well-organized team at your side that continuously takes care of maintenance.

If you have your own development team, you will receive regular pull requests on GitHub or GitLab. All changes are easy to understand and can be used immediately. If you do not have your own team, we will apply updates directly in your staging or production environment. At the end of each month, you will receive a brief summary outlining which adjustments were made, why they were necessary, and which steps are planned next.

If you would like support with further development, you can book Rails developers at any time. Since we already know your codebase, we can implement new features or prepare larger changes without onboarding effort.

Active Maintenance arose from a simple observation: good software ages better when it is regularly maintained. For us, this maintenance is self-evident and an integral part of sustainable, responsible development.