Building an AI-Powered Mobile App with Ruby on Rails and DigitalOcean | 10 Grounds

Building an AI-powered consumer app today comes with a lot of noise. New frameworks, new models, new infrastructure patterns — all promising speed, scale, and intelligence out of the box. When we started building CoChefy, our goal was much simpler: Ship a real product, iterate quickly, and stay in control of complexity. That mindset shaped every architectural decision we made. This article shares a high-level look at how CoChefy is built using Ruby on Rails and DigitalOcean, and why a pragmatic, Rails-first approach made sense for an AI-assisted mobile app.