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by andrewmutz 22 days ago
Claude works in Rails apps extremely well. As the author of this blog points points out, Ruby allows you to get a ton done with minimal coding. Also, Rails uses convention over configuration, making Rails apps even terser.

One hypothesis for the effectiveness of Claude writing Rails apps is its token efficiency.

I ran across this project awhile back that attempts to measure and compare the token efficiency across projects, and Rails does really well:

https://felipemrvieira.github.io/SyntaxTax/dashboard/