Rails Best Practices Skill — Development skill for Claude Code

Rails Best Practices Skill

A Claude Agent Skill that provides comprehensive Rails best practices sourced from [rails-bestpractices.com](https://rails-bestpractices.com/).

What is This?

This is a **Claude Agent Skill** - a specialized knowledge package that helps Claude review, analyze, and generate Ruby on Rails code following community best practices. **This skill is automatically invoked for both code review and code generation** when Claude is working with Ruby on Rails code.

Quick Start

Install for Claude Code

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r rails_best_practices ~/.claude/skills/rails-best-practices

See [QUICK_START.md](QUICK_START.md) for 3-step installation.

Features

When enabled, Claude will automatically:

• ✅ Use Time.zone.now instead of Time.now
• ✅ Check save return values or use save!
• ✅ Avoid default_scope anti-patterns
• ✅ Prevent N+1 query problems
• ✅ Use strong parameters in controllers
• ✅ Follow Rails conventions
• ✅ Apply security best practices
• ✅ Optimize database queries
• ✅ And much more!

Installation

• Claude Code: See INSTALL.md
• Claude Apps: Enable in Settings → Skills
• API: Include in Messages API requests

Sharing with Community

Want to share this skill with other developers?

**See [HOW_TO_SHARE.md](HOW_TO_SHARE.md) for complete step-by-step instructions!**

Quick version:

1. Create GitHub repository
2. Submit to Anthropic Skills Marketplace (when available)
3. Share with Rails community

Documentation

• SKILL.md - Main skill description
• QUICK_START.md - 3-step installation
• INSTALL.md - Detailed installation guide
• HOW_TO_SHARE.md - Complete sharing guide ⭐
• DEVELOPER_GUIDE.md - Developer contribution guide
• CONTRIBUTING.md - How to contribute improvements
• INDEX.md - Complete practices index
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