RAG on Ruby on Rails - Jesse Waites

I volunteer at a hiking club that has been around for about 150 years, with a large and constantly rotating group of volunteers. Those volunteers regularly need to understand the latest policies on participant screening, trip posting, safety requirements, and other guidance that has accumulated over decades. While this information exists, it is spread across multiple websites and documents, making it difficult to search, easy to overlook, and hard to know whether what you are reading is still current or authoritative. A retrieval-augmented generation system is well suited to this problem because it is designed to surface and explain existing information rather than invent new answers. By searching approved policy sources, retrieving the most relevant and up to date sections, and presenting them in clear plain language with links back to the original material, the system gives volunteers fast and trustworthy guidance while preserving accuracy and accountability.