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Solid Queue is the Rails 8 default and Sidekiq is the long-standing incumbent. Here is how they compare in late 2026, which Rails versions each one supports, and a decision guide for new and existing apps.
A web application's speed is not just the speed of the app server and the database. Between the browser and the SELECT there are seven places where the answer may already exist. This post walks through all of them, with the Rails configuration for each and what each one actually saves.
Most Rails APIs happen rather than get designed: a format.json branch grows into a contract nobody wrote down. Here is the structure that fixes it: path versioning, a three-layer controller hierarchy, token auth outside the versioned tree, v2 without copying v1, and NRQL to prove when v1 can be deleted.
Rails 8.0 stops getting security patches on November 7, 2026. Here is what changes between 8.0 and 8.1, the seven new defaults and which ones can bite, and a dual-boot plan you can finish before the deadline.
Everything native with Procfile.dev, or everything in containers with docker-compose? The setup that works best day to day sits in between: native app processes, stateful services in containers, and a container runtime that does not eat your RAM.