Technical articles about building Solana dApps with Ruby on Rails.
Issue a real SPL token from a Rails app — no keypair, no Anchor program. Register, deploy, mint, and burn through the Solana Developer Platform with solrengine-sdp.
The backend a real Solana dApp needs — RPC/price caching, durable confirmation tracking, real-time push — as four Next.js services or four SQLite files in Rails 8.
Why every SolRengine dApp reads on the server in Ruby and signs in the browser — the server never holds a key, the browser never holds your RPC credentials.
Building Solana Bytes — a hex visualizer and 8-bit game — with Rails 8, Turbo Frames, and signed challenge tokens. No SPA, no router, no JSON API.
An on-chain voting dApp built with Rails 8 and SolRengine. The Rails DB stores only users; polls, candidates, and votes all live on Solana. The architecture, the perf wins, and what we learned shipping it.
One gem, one generator, one Stimulus controller. Add Sign In With Solana to any Rails 8 app with solrengine-auth.
Introducing SolRengine — an open-source framework of Ruby gems for building Solana dApps with Rails 8. Why we built it, what it does, and what's next.
