Ruby on Rails and PyTorch: Building Reliable AI Features

A practical guide for Ruby teams adding PyTorch predictions to Rails: define the API contract, handle failures, measure the feature and hire for integration skills.

A practical guide for Ruby teams adding PyTorch predictions to Rails: define the API contract, handle failures, measure the feature and hire for integration skills.
Occasionally a Rails application needs to calculate something from the data in its database. This could be ranking products, summarizing sensor readings or forecasting potential sales from prior purchases. While Python is well-established in the field of data science, Ruby…

A customer asks “Where is my order?” in a Rails application. The chat window looks simple, but the application still has work to do: identify the customer, find an order they are allowed to see, and provide a useful answer…

Your customers say they’ve paid. Your application states there’s still an outstanding order. Your Rails app has processed the callback for a second time and now your worker is waiting to perform. These are the kinds of issues a payment…