AppSignal added ten new Ruby and Rails tutorials to its documentation, built in partnership with GoRails creator Chris Oliver and his collaborator Collin, extending the "expert context" that feeds the observability platform's Intelligence features.
Per AppSignal, the collaboration deepens an existing partnership with Oliver, who also founded the Rails hosting service Hatchbox. AppSignal already stores enriched telemetry, user context, and infrastructure data in what it calls a context store, which powers both traditional observability dashboards and agent-facing workflows over MCP or the CLI. The new tutorials become part of that same context store, meaning AppSignal's Intelligence agents (and any agent a customer points at the docs) can read them alongside the platform's own product guides.
AppSignal draws a distinction between the two document types: its own guides cover installing, configuring, and reading AppSignal, while the new GoRails-sourced tutorials explain the underlying Ruby and Rails tools that produce the data AppSignal monitors, covering topics such as Solid Queue, Mission Control Jobs, background job batching, the debug gem, and Rails's newer Markdown renderer. AppSignal says one tutorial is new and written specifically for its users, while the rest are adapted from existing GoRails material.
Every tutorial pairs a video with a written walkthrough, and AppSignal structured the text to double as agent instructions: requirements in a table, ordered steps, and a defined finish line. Each documentation page is also available as plain Markdown by appending .md to its URL, and the full set is indexed in an llms.txt file and bundled in llms-full.txt, so an AI coding agent can be pointed directly at the same material a human developer would read.
Per AppSignal's announcement, the update publishes during Rails World 2026 in Austin, Texas, with more detail on the Intelligence work promised over the course of the conference.
