# Migrating from Rails to Go: Making the Switch

DevFeed: [Migrating from Rails to Go: Making the Switch](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/migrating-from-rails-to-go-making-the-switch-17800.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://encore.dev/blog/from-rails-to-go>)

Author: Marcus Kohlberg

Published: 2025-04-17T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Encore Updates](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/encore-updates.md>)

Topics: [Go Language](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/go-language.md>), [Rails](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/rails.md>), [Framework](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/framework.md>), [DevOps](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/devops.md>), [web applications](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web-applications.md>)

Tags: [development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/development.md>), [devops](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/devops.md>), [framework](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/framework.md>), [go](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/go.md>), [rails](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/rails.md>)

## AI overview

This article examines why teams migrate from Ruby on Rails to Go as their products and teams scale. It compares Rails' conventions and integrated tooling with Go's minimalism, concurrency, fast compilation, and efficient binaries, while noting the added architectural and setup decisions Go requires.

## Source excerpt

Learn from teams who have successfully migrated from Rails to Go, reducing their DevOps burden in the process.