Manifest #403—Deterministic Schema Generation, Manifest in Las Vegas, and more.
Headway - Digital Product Agency
With a customer-led approach, we help high-growth SaaS startups learn from customers, design better, and build faster.
Taming schema.rb Chaos: A Rails Developer's Guide to Deterministic Schema Generation
In the world of Ruby on Rails development, few files cause as much friction in team environments as schema.rb.
While this file serves as the single source of truth for your database structure, it's also notorious for causing merge conflicts when multiple developers work on separate branches.
Jon Kinney , Partner & CTO at Headway, explores a solution that's coming in Rails 8.0.x, and how you can implement it right now?in your projects.
This guide will help you take control
~ Why schema.rb inconsistencies happen
~ How to achieve deterministic schema generation
~ Best practices to keep your schema stable
Live from Las Vegas: Manifest The Future of Supply Chain & Logistics
This week Andrew Verboncouer , Jon Kinney , and Eric Verboncouer from our crew attended Manifest 2025 to represent our subsidiary agency, Intermode - Software Consultancy for Logistics & Supply Chain .
Manifest brings together the most comprehensive ecosystem of those innovating and transforming end-to-end supply chain and logistics.
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Andrew had a live podcast interview with Samantha Jones to discuss these topics:
? How do the best teams bridge the gap between software, customers, and business goals?
? What makes a development process actually work—beyond just shipping features?
? How do you balance speed, quality, and adaptability in fast-moving industries?
What we've been reading
Strategy
Design
Development
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?? Evan Bacon , Jamon Holmgren