Plutonium

Build production-ready Rails apps in minutes, not days. Convention-driven, fully customizable, and AI-ready. Plutonium picks up where Rails left off, adding application-level concepts that make building complex apps faster.

Quick Start

rails new myapp -a propshaft -j esbuild -c tailwind \
  -m https://radioactive-labs.github.io/plutonium-core/templates/plutonium.rb

Then create your first resource:

cd myapp
rails g pu:res:scaffold Post title:string body:text --dest=main_app
rails db:migrate
bin/dev

Visit http://localhost:3000 - you have a complete CRUD interface.

What You Get

Resource-oriented architecture - Models, policies, definitions, and controllers that work together:

# Policy controls WHO can do WHAT
class PostPolicy < ResourcePolicy
  def create? = user.present?
  def update? = record.author == user || user.admin?

  def permitted_attributes_for_create
    %i[title body]
  end
end

# Definition controls HOW it renders
class PostDefinition < ResourceDefinition
  input :body, as: :markdown
  search { |scope, q| scope.where("title ILIKE ?", "%#{q}%") }
  scope :published
  scope :drafts
end

Packages for organization - Split your app into feature packages and portals:

rails g pu:pkg:package blogging      # Business logic
rails g pu:pkg:portal admin          # Web interface
rails g pu:res:conn Post --dest=admin_portal

Built-in authentication via Rodauth:

rails g pu:rodauth:install
rails g pu:rodauth:account user

Multi-tenancy with entity scoping:

# In portal engine
scope_to_entity Organization, strategy: :path
# Routes become /organizations/:organization_id/posts

Custom actions with interactions:

class PublishInteraction < ResourceInteraction
  attribute :resource
  attribute :publish_at, :datetime

  def execute
    resource.update!(published_at: publish_at)
    succeed(resource).with_message("Published!")
  rescue ActiveRecord::RecordInvalid => e
    failed(e.record.errors)
  end
end

Documentation

Full documentation at radioactive-labs.github.io/plutonium-core

Requirements

Ruby 3.2+
Rails 7.1+ (Rails 8 recommended)
Node.js 18+

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md for development setup and guidelines.

Status

Plutonium is used in production but still evolving. APIs may change between minor versions. Pin your version in Gemfile.

License

MIT License - see LICENSE.