RubyLLM retries POSTs that Faraday would not, and honors Retry-After with no upper bound. A 429 can park a Rails request for as long as the provider says.
RubyLLM is a model client with Rails generators. Langchainrb is retrieval plumbing. Pick by whether you query your own documents, not by provider count.
Add LLM chat to Rails with RubyLLM: one API for OpenAI, Claude, and Ollama, acts_as_chat persistence, tool calling, streaming into Turbo, and real trade-offs.
Our production multi-agent LLM pipeline in Rails: eight RubyLLM agents on a 21-line base class, a 16-line loop, and the deploy that starved the database pool.
What a green Rails suite actually asserts when the thing under test is a hosted model: VCR matches on method and URI only, and the model can be retired.
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