I just released Stepped Actions, a Rails engine for orchestrating complex workflows as a tree of persisted actions that run through Active Job. It’s extracted out of Envirobly and battle tested in it’s current form for over a year.
Tag: rails
Envirobly – Efficient application hosting platform
Envirobly.com is a startup I solo founded and launched in October 2025. It’s a culmination of an intense 3 year work, crafting a platform to deploy web applications to, while keeping the costs manageable.
It runs the full lifecycle of application infrastructure on AWS. It connects to a customer’s AWS account, lays down regional foundations (VPC, NAT, Traefik gateways, Route53 DNS, Managed Prometheus), and lets teams ship services, databases, and gateways with zero-downtime deploys, live logs and metrics.
CRM system
Integrated business management web app for a sales company with CRM features. The functionality this Rails app provides is extensive:
Speeding up bundle install with in-memory file system
On some of the servers I work with, due to cheap hard drives in software RAID configuration, I’ve found that bundle install can be extremely slow (take half an hour to complete). This obviously became unacceptable during deploys.
Effort – Personal To-do and Project manager
I open sourced a Rails app that I’ve been personally using for years for simple project management. The code is available on Github under the MIT license. From the README:
Tutoring Website United Kingdom & South Africa
For this project it was important to consider the target audience. Many people in South Africa, especially in schools, use older versions of Windows and Internet Explorer. These are the people that are most likely to visit this website to evaluate the company. Thus one of the primary objectives of this project was compatibility with Internet Explorer 7 and up.
EQAFE – Ecommerce
This is one of the first projects where I started using Rails in production. EQAFE developed—over the years—from a simple checkout page to sell a single book to an ecommerce platform featuring thousands of products, affiliate program, gifts and more.
DIP Lite: E-learning Platform
DIP Lite is a free e-learning platform. Its fully automated in-browser experience connects the users with a personally assigned “buddy”: an experienced person that overviews and assist the user throughout the course. The user walks the course on her own pace as well as engage in daily exercises, complete with email notifications and communication with the course buddy provided by the course platform.
Equal Money System Website
The goal for this project was to create a presentation which immediately engages the user and allows them to interact with the website and information in a meaningful fashion. Therefore, instead of a static presentation, we came up with easy to use and immediately available voting in relation to the goals of the project that is being presented.
DIP Pro – Online Course Delivery Platform
E-learning project similar to DIP Lite but for more serious and advanced students, providing much more features including credit card payments, commission payouts, file (course material) delivery, multiple different courses divided into years and months and API for integration with other projects.