--- title: 2 Martians, greenfield to MVP in 4 weeks: agentic coding... description: A designer and a backend engineer at Evil Martians shipped a full production MVP for an educational platform (Thicket) in four weeks using Rails, Inertia,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/2-martians-greenfield-to-mvp-in-4-weeks-agentic-coding-on-rails-martian-chronicles-evil-martians--jfk5nweey twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: 2 Martians, greenfield to MVP in 4 weeks: agentic coding on Rails—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog | daily.dev og:description: A designer and a backend engineer at Evil Martians shipped a full production MVP for an educational platform (Thicket) in four weeks using Rails, Inertia,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/2-martians-greenfield-to-mvp-in-4-weeks-agentic-coding-on-rails-martian-chronicles-evil-martians--jfk5nweey og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Jfk5nWEey.png og:image:alt: 2 Martians, greenfield to MVP in 4 weeks: agentic coding on Rails—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # 2 Martians, greenfield to MVP in 4 weeks: agentic coding on Rails—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog **[Martian Chronicles](https://daily.dev/sources/evilmartians)** · 9 min read · 5 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary A designer and a backend engineer at Evil Martians shipped a full production MVP for an educational platform (Thicket) in four weeks using Rails, Inertia, React, and Storybook, with Claude Code as the primary AI coding tool. The post details their two-phase approach: rapid prototyping in Bolt.new followed by migration to a shared Rails+Inertia codebase. Key insight is that Rails' opinionated conventions make it ideal for agentic coding because they constrain AI generation reliably. The team developed reusable open-source 'skills' — project-specific architectural patterns encoded for AI tools — that are now published for others to use. The post includes a concrete example of how a filter abstraction was born from a real bug, and concludes that senior engineering judgment plus good constraints enables small teams to ship production-quality software at speed. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@starfallcodes** · 0 upvotes > Great. 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