Build. Ship. Own your work.

The idea

Rails Academy is focused on helping you turn ideas into working software.

The goal is not to replace books, documentation, computer science education, or courses dedicated to teaching every software development fundamental in depth.

There are already many excellent resources for that.

Here, the focus is practical: use Ruby on Rails, AI, and a small set of proven tools to create complete applications and put them on the internet.

AI can help you write code, troubleshoot problems, understand unfamiliar parts of an application, explore solutions, and move much faster than you could alone.

Rails Academy is about learning how to use that leverage to build and ship independently.

Your responsibility

AI-generated code and suggestions can be incomplete, incorrect, insecure, or unsuitable for your particular application.

You are responsible for reviewing, testing, adapting, and deciding what you use in applications you create.

Rails Academy provides educational material and examples, not a guarantee that any particular code, architecture, AI output, deployment, or third-party service will be appropriate for every situation.

Your membership

Some Rails Academy courses are free. Others require an active paid membership or trial.

Paid memberships renew according to the billing period shown when you subscribe. You may cancel your subscription using the available billing management options.

Free trials

When a free trial is offered, its length and billing terms are shown before you subscribe.

Unless cancelled before the trial ends, the subscription may become a paid membership according to the terms shown during checkout.

Course material

Your membership gives you personal access to the course material available under your plan.

Please don't republish, resell, redistribute, or make the course videos, written lessons, or other Rails Academy materials available as your own product.

The applications and original code you create while learning are yours. The goal is for you to use what you learn to create your own software.

Third-party tools

Courses may use third-party products and services such as AI providers, hosting companies, payment providers, databases, APIs, development tools, or other software.

Those services have their own pricing, terms, availability, limitations, and policies, which may change independently of Rails Academy.

No guaranteed outcome

Rails Academy teaches practical software-building workflows, but completing a course cannot guarantee a job, income, business result, successful application, or other particular outcome.

What you build and what you do with it is ultimately up to you.

Keep it respectful

Don't abuse the service, attempt to interfere with it, access another person's account, redistribute protected course material, or use Rails Academy in ways that violate applicable law.

The service will evolve

Rails Academy is independently built and continuously improved. Courses, tools, features, pricing, and parts of the service may change over time.

Software and AI change quickly, so some commands, APIs, interfaces, dependencies, or third-party services shown in a course may also change over time.

Existing subscriptions remain subject to the billing terms presented for them unless those terms are properly changed or a new plan is chosen.

Questions

There isn't a giant support department behind this website. It's independently built and operated.

If something is wrong, you have a question about your account, or you need help with the service, contact me using the email at the bottom of the page.

One last thing

Rails Academy is ultimately about independence.

Take an idea. Use AI as leverage. Build the application. Solve the problems. Deploy it. Put it on the internet.

You don't need a large team to start creating useful software.

Build something that belongs to you.

That's the mission.

Last updated: August 2026.