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Score your Rails platform
in ten minutes.

Twenty questions across version debt, test coverage, performance, security, and how your team actually ships. You get a score out of 40, the band you fall into, and a specific action for the next 30 days.

Built from the same five areas we assess on every engagement. No tooling required, and the result is yours whether or not we ever speak.

✓ 20 questions across five areas
✓ A score out of 40 and the band you fall into
✓ A specific action for the next 30 days
✓ About ten minutes, no tooling required
The Rails Platform Health Scorecard — a self-assessment for engineering leaders
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What It Measures

Five areas,
four questions each

The same five categories we use to scope a real Rails audit. Each question scores 0, 1, or 2, so every section is out of 8 and the total is out of 40.

01

Version and dependency health

How far behind current Rails and Ruby you are, how gems get updated, and what happens to deprecation warnings. Version debt compounds faster than anything else on the list.
02

Test coverage and deploy confidence

Whether the suite runs on every change, covers billing and authentication, finishes in under ten minutes, and is trusted when it goes red.
03

Performance and scale

How N+1 queries get caught, whether you know the p95 of your slowest important endpoint, how background work is handled, and when someone last read the slow query log.
04

Security and recoverability

Static analysis, dependency vulnerability alerts, where secrets live, and when you last restored from a backup. A single 0 here outranks a strong total.
05

Delivery and decision-making

How often you deploy, what a deploy costs in downtime, how long a new engineer takes to merge their first pull request, and how AI-generated code is reviewed.
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Your Score

Four bands,
one next step

Read the spread as well as the total. An even score points to general neglect. A spiky one means a specific decision went wrong somewhere, and finding it is worth more than any single fix.

34–40

Healthy

Better shape than most production Rails apps of the same age. Close your lowest-scoring question while it's still small, and re-score on a schedule.
24–33

Drifting

Nothing is broken, but changes take longer than they used to. The most common result. Fix your lowest-scoring section before the next feature ships.
14–23

Compounding

Problems now feed each other, and hiring more engineers stops helping. Get an outside read on the architecture before the next hire or roadmap commitment.
0–13

Structural risk

An availability or security incident is a question of when. Start with security and recoverability, then versions and dependencies. New features wait.
FAQ

Common questions

CTOs, VPs of Engineering, and founders who own a Ruby on Rails application in production. It works best when your senior engineer and whoever owns the roadmap score it separately, then compare. Where their answers differ is where the real conversation is.
About ten minutes. There are 20 questions, and none of them need tooling or access to the code. An answer you're not sure about scores 0, because not knowing is a finding too.
A 9-page PDF with the 20 questions across five areas. You get a score out of 40, the band it puts you in, and a specific action for the next 30 days.
Any. The version questions are relative to the current releases of Rails and Ruby, so the scorecard stays accurate as new versions ship.
No. It tells you which of the five areas to open first, but it can't find the specific query that is about to slow down checkout. For that, we offer a free Rails code audit: we read the codebase and send a written report on architecture, performance, and security within 2 to 3 days.
Yes. Enter your name and email to download it. The result is yours whether or not we ever speak.
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