gumroad-prod-console

Apps & Automation

Execute read-only Ruby/Rails commands against Gumroad's production database for debugging and investigation. Use when the user needs to debug production issues, look up data, investigate user reports, check records, or query production state. Triggers on: "check in prod", "debug this in prod", "look up user/purchase/product in production", "production console", "investigate in prod", "query production", "what's happening in prod", "look up a user by email", "who bought this product", "why is this user blocked", "find this sale/purchase", "how many X does Y have", or any request to examine live Gumroad data — even when the user doesn't say "prod" explicitly.

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Gumroad production console

Read-only Rails runner against the production read replica via bastion SSH.

Execution

.claude/skills/gumroad-prod-console/scripts/prod_query.sh 'puts User.count'
.claude/skills/gumroad-prod-console/scripts/prod_query.sh /tmp/query.rb
echo 'puts User.count' | .claude/skills/gumroad-prod-console/scripts/prod_query.sh

Multi-line queries: write a temp .rb file, pass its path. Bash tool timeout is ~120s — wrap slow queries in WithMaxExecutionTime.timeout_queries(seconds: 30) { ... }. Queries run against the read replica (DATABASE_WORKER_REPLICA1_HOST by default).

Follow-up queries are cheap — start scoped (one record, one field), then drill in as the investigation clarifies. Avoid the urge to return everything in a single large query.

Safety

Read-only. Never write, update, or delete.
Always .limit() / .first() / .take() — never unbounded result sets.
Prefer .pluck(:col, :col) over loading full AR objects.
Mask PII in output (truncate emails, addresses, payment details).
.explain before querying large tables without indexed conditions.
Emit structured output (JSON for complex, .inspect for simple) so results are parseable.

Gumroad-specific gotchas

External IDs, not primary keys

Admin URLs and public IDs use external IDs (ExternalId module — Base64 strings like aBcDeFgHiJkLmNoPqRsTuQ==), not integer PKs.

Purchase.find_by_external_id("aBcDeFgHiJkLmNoPqRsTuQ==")  # correct
Purchase.find("aBcDeFgHiJkLmNoPqRsTuQ==")                  # WRONG — treats it as a PK, silently returns the wrong record

Model naming

Model	Note
`Link`	The product model (legacy name). `find_by(unique_permalink:)` for permalinks; `alive` scope for non-deleted.
`Installment`	Subscriptions/recurring (not ActiveRecord's sense of "installment"). `where(link_id:, alive: true)`.
`Comment`	Admin notes on records. `content` field, not `body`.
`MerchantAccount`	Processor-specific — users can have multiple. `where(user_id:, charge_processor_id:)`.
`Purchase`	`successful` scope for completed sales. `where(email:)`, `where(link_id:)`.

User, Balance, Dispute, Follower, CustomDomain behave as names suggest.

Sidekiq queues

critical (12k limit — payouts, webhooks, receipts) → default (300k — general) → long (PDF stamping etc.) → low (expiry). Queue limits at app/controllers/healthcheck_controller.rb:28; worker ordering at docker/web/sidekiq_worker.sh.

DevTools (Gumroad-specific helpers)

See lib/utilities/dev_tools.rb:

DevTools.reindex_all_for_user(user_id) — reindex ES data
DevTools.reimport_follower_events_for_user!(user) — reimport follower analytics

For Gumroad-specific scopes and associations (alive, successful, unpaid_balance_cents, payments, products, Flipper checks, Sidekiq introspection), see references/common-queries.md.

Requirements

An AWS profile with ec2:DescribeInstances on the prod account. The script defaults to the profile gumroad-prod (created by scripts/setup.sh). Override by exporting AWS_PROFILE or setting PROD_AWS_PROFILE in your config file.
SSH access to your production bastion (defaults to bastion-production.gumroad.net)

Gumroad team one-time setup

If you previously ran this script via GUMROAD_DEPLOYMENT_DIR and .env.aws, run the helper from the repo root to migrate those creds into an AWS CLI profile:

.claude/skills/gumroad-prod-console/scripts/setup.sh
# or pass an explicit path:
.claude/skills/gumroad-prod-console/scripts/setup.sh ~/path/to/.env.aws

The helper will also offer to append export AWS_PROFILE=gumroad-prod to your shell profile — say yes and reload the shell. After this, gumroad-deployment is no longer required to run the skill.

Configuration (self-hosters)

Defaults target Gumroad's prod infra. If you're running your own Gumroad fork, override by creating ~/.config/gumroad-prod-console.env:

PROD_BASTION=bastion.mycompany.com
PROD_SECURITY_GROUP=my-web-sg
PROD_CONTAINER_FILTER=app-*
PROD_DB_HOST_VAR=MY_READ_REPLICA_HOST
PROD_AWS_PROFILE=my-aws-profile

Or export the same variables before invoking the script.