I'm Joel Gaff, Jr., a self-taught Ruby on Rails developer in Portland, Oregon, USA. For the past four-plus years I've designed, built, and operated nearly a dozen production Rails apps. Solo. I manage every migration, the DNS records, and deploys.

I borrow a lot from 37signals: a single, maintainable, Rails monolith, Hotwire for the front end, and almost always SQLite. I like to write about what I'm working on, too.