Just like Action Mailer for emails, Active Agent uses familiar conventions to manage AI agents, prompts, & actions with minimal setup—making AI in Rails as simple as sending & receiving email. Active Agent includes these modules & features:
Action Prompt
Action Prompt defines actions that can be performed by agents and can render prompts and generative UI, making it easy to craft agent interactions using familiar Rails development patterns.
Generation Provider
The Generation Provider is a common interface to interact with AI services like OpenAI and Anthropic to generate text, images, embeddings, or speech.
Queued Generation
Queued Generation manages asynchronous tasks by handling prompt generation and response cycles with Generation Jobs, ensuring smooth, scalable AI interactions.
Callbacks
Provides hooks to execute custom code at specific points in the agent's workflow.
Streaming
Enables dynamic UI updates based on user & agent interactions.
Solid Agent
Provides Active Record models to store your agent interactions & context. (COMING SOON)
Rails-native
Active Agent is built explicitly for Rails, following familiar patterns for concise, effortless integrations with your existing stack. It is the only comprehensive solution that truly embraces Rails conventions.
Lightweight
Active Agent keeps things simple, no multi-step workflows or unnecessary complexity. It integrates directly into your Rails app with clear separation of concerns, making AI features easy to implement and maintain. With less than 10 lines of code, you can ship an AI feature.
Flexible & extensible
Active Agent works seamlessly with tools like Langchain Ruby, pgvector, and the neighbors gem. Its agent-based architecture handles tool calls, renders prompts, and generates vector embeddings for pgvector with ease.
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Active Agent is designed for Rails developers who need a simple, Rails-native solution to quickly build AI features—even without deep AI expertise. It’s perfect for:
Large Rails monoliths
Struggling with the complexity of adding AI features to a large Rails monolith? Active Agent handles the heavy lifting, providing AI infrastructure and conventions to streamline development and boost your team's productivity.
Rails consultants
Need to deliver fast, tangible results to clients? Active Actent makes it easy, allowing you to demonstrate progress within days and iterate quickly—all while focusing on solving clients' problems, not building AI infrastructure from scratch.
Full-stack Rails devs
Interested in building with AI but lack the resources or experience? Active Agent allows you to build AI products using conventions you already know, helping you deliver more value and grow in your career without a steep learning curve.
Startup founders & solo devs
Launching an AI-powered app? Active Agent simplifies the process so you can focus on your product’s unique differentiators and bringing your ideas to market fast, all while building in a language and framework you love.
