Learn. Build. Own your work.

The idea

I want you to understand the applications you build.

Not just generate them. Not become dependent on a platform. Not spend your career assembling tools you don't control.

The goal of Rails Academy is to teach you how to build, understand, deploy, and own complete applications yourself.

Your membership

Some Rails Academy courses are free. Others require an active paid membership or trial.

Paid memberships renew according to the billing period shown when you subscribe. You may cancel your subscription according to the options provided for your membership.

Free trials

When a free trial is offered, its length and billing terms are shown before you subscribe. Unless cancelled before the trial ends, the subscription may become a paid membership according to the terms shown during checkout.

Course material

Your membership gives you personal access to the course material available under your plan.

Please don't republish, resell, redistribute, or make the course videos, written lessons, or other Rails Academy materials available as your own product.

The applications and original code you create while learning are yours. The entire point is for you to leave capable of building your own work.

No guaranteed outcome

Rails Academy teaches software development, but completing a course cannot guarantee a job, income, business result, or other particular outcome.

What you build with the knowledge is ultimately up to you.

Keep it respectful

Don't abuse the service, attempt to interfere with it, access another person's account, or use Rails Academy in ways that violate applicable law.

The service will evolve

Rails Academy is independently built and continuously improved. Courses, features, pricing, and parts of the service may change over time.

Existing subscriptions remain subject to the billing terms presented for them unless those terms are properly changed or a new plan is chosen.

Questions

There isn't a giant support department behind this website.

If something is wrong, you have a question about your account, or you simply need help, contact me using the email at the bottom of the page.

One last thing

Rails Academy is ultimately about independence.

Learn the fundamentals. Understand your tools. Own your application. Deploy it. Put it on the internet. Build something that belongs to you.

That's the mission.

Last updated: August 2026.