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Threads, fibers or forked processes? A practical comparison of Puma 8, Falcon 0.57 and Pitchfork 0.18 for Rails on Ruby 4, with configs and a decision by scenario.
Rails 8 ships Solid Queue, Solid Cache and Solid Cable by default, but many teams still reach for Sidekiq, Redis and AnyCable. This post compares each pair with October 2026 versions and features, and gives a per-component decision table.
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.
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.
How I built short links and click tracking as a Rails engine in a folder of the main app, with the real code and the tradeoffs.