Fiber-based framework for teams that love Ruby but need fewer reasons to explain why they’re still using it.rage-rb.dev United KingdomJoined January 2026
The most common piece of feedback I got about Rage? “API-only sucks.”
So I shipped the official Inertia.js adapter. Auto-starts Vite in dev, pre-builds assets for prod, exposes Inertia props out of the box.
What’s your next excuse?
Rage just got daemons.
Rage::Daemon lets you run long-lived background processes alongside your app.
No external process managers needed. The processes your app depends on now have a home inside the app, supervised by the framework.
Benchmarks across a full request cycle - request in, connection pool, database query - show the 2.2x to 4x improvement. In 30 lines of code.
Simplicity-driven development wins again.
Looking back at the previous example, if 1000 fibers try to fetch a connection from an empty pool, each new timer will be `Time. now + 5` - i.e. higher than the previous one.
Which means that if we first check the last element in the list before doing the O(N) insertion, we can get constant-time insertions in the most common scenario.
For several months, I wanted to optimise the code in Rage that schedules fibers to be woken up at a specific time. The plan was to use skip lists.
Last week, @maciejmensfeld’s compilation of Ruby performance PRs got me inspired, and I decided to give it another look 🧵
The common Ruby advice - “default to threads, only reach for fibers if you’re I/O-heavy” - is backwards.
The worst case for a fiber-based server is thread level performance.
The downside isn’t really there. The upside is.
What happens when you move two production Rails apps from threads to fibers?
6x and 10x lower p95 latency under load. 0% errors.
Real endpoints, real traffic - not micro-benchmarks.
rage-rb.dev/blog/2026/05/1…
Rage has official OpenTelemetry support.
Those parallel traces? That’s just fibers doing their concurrency thing without you having to worry about it.
Works with any OTel-compatible backend.
@hschnedlitz@excid3 I can see how it makes sense at scale, but for small-to-medium teams, gems give you community support, security patches, and new hires already know the tool. Hard to replicate that with a custom build.
Looking forward to hearing your take on this!
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