Ruby on Rails is the best startup stack. Garry Tan, YC’s president, is building and evangelizing Ruby on Rails and Claude Code. Intercom’s AI agent Fin resolves 1M+ tickets per week on a 2M-line Rails monolith. bolt.new hit $40M+ ARR on a Rails backend. Chime, Figma, and Omada Health, all built with Ruby, had IPOs in 2025. NexHealth hit a $1B valuation on Rails. Thatch—founded by ex-Stripe enginee

