Ruphy Studio ™

Drag and Drop your Rails project from Idea to IPO

Ruphy Studio ™ is a Rapid Application Development (RAD) platform for Ruby on Rails with a Delphi-inspired experience.

It is my love letter to my 20-years-ago self.

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Vision

Keep the wheel running from a new perspective — not reinventing it.

Ruphy Studio aims to:

• Create Rails applications from scratch
• Attach them to remote Git repositories
• Provide a Drag & Drop WYSIWYG experience, powered by Hotwire and ready to be deployed to remote servers using Kamal
• Use a seamless UI component system, RuphyCL, powered by Css-Zero and later on Ruby UI components
• Stay 100% Rails-compatible
• Support remote deployment via Kamal (through a remote deployer)

The goal is not to replace Rails —
it is to elevate the Rails experience.

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Architecture (Current POC State)

Ruphy Studio is a hybrid Desktop/Web application:

• Desktop shell powered by Glimmer DSL for SWT
• Running on JRuby
• Generates real Rails 7.1.x applications
• Uses JDBC adapters for cross-platform SQLite support
• Designed to deploy via MRI + Kamal (remote deployer model)

Runtime Strategy

Local Development

• JRuby 9.4.x
• Rails 7.1.x
• activerecord-jdbcsqlite3-adapter
• No native compilation required
• Cross-platform: macOS / Linux / Windows

Deployment

• MRI Ruby
• Standard sqlite3 gem
• Kamal executed remotely

This keeps development friction-free while preserving production compatibility.

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Rails Seed Project Design

Generated Rails apps:

• Rails 7.1.x
• SQLite database
• JDBC adapter under JRuby
• Native sqlite3 under MRI
• No Docker
• No local Kamal dependency

The project remains fully compatible with standard Rails workflows.

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Install

Install mise

https://github.com/jdx/mise

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Install Java (JDK recommended)

https://openjdk.org/install/

JRuby requires a working Java runtime.

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Install Toolchain

From project root:

mise install

Install ruby gems (using jruby)

jruby -S bundle install

Run the development version

Run it locally

jruby app/main.rb

Build the distribution version

Build it using Glimmer