vanilla-rails

Analyze a Rails codebase for over-engineering and opportunities to simplify toward Vanilla Rails.

Code review from Vanilla Rails philosophy perspective.

Plan incremental simplification of a Rails codebase toward Vanilla Rails philosophy.

Use this agent when reviewing Rails code for over-engineering and adherence to Vanilla Rails philosophy. Checks for: unnecessary service layers, business logic in services instead of models, anemic models, fat controllers, service explosion, and premature abstraction. Recommends simplification with specific code examples.

Design and review Rails applications using Vanilla Rails philosophy from 37signals/Basecamp. Emphasizes thin controllers, rich domain models, and avoiding unnecessary service layers. Use when analyzing Rails codebases, reviewing PRs, or refactoring toward simpler architecture. Triggers on "service layer", "service object", "thin controller", "rich model", "vanilla rails", "dhh style", "over-engineering", "unnecessary abstraction".