# Tidewave Rails Desktop Extension MCP Server

Runtime-level MCP server for Rails development: run code, read logs, query the DB, read docs.

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## Status

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## Connect

## Reviewed GitHub reports

**28 GitHub reports passed Pod's relevance review.** This can include external user reports, maintainer-confirmed bugs, and concrete feature gaps. It is evidence to inspect, not a count of distinct defects. Showing 12.

### Most discussed

### Invalid JSON from Rails sent to Claude

### Is your issue related to a particular editor or MCP client?

I don't think so, but I haven't yet tested exhaustively.

### Are you using a MCP Proxy?

Yes: the Elixir version.

### What is your Tidewave version?

0.1.1

### What is your operating system?

macOS 15.4.1 (24E263)

### Current behavior

I'm not absolutely certain, but this seems to be a bug in Tidewave_Rails rather than Claude or mcp-proxy or my configuration.

I set up the Elixir version of the mcp-proxy, added the command to m

[Read the thread](https://github.com/tidewave-ai/tidewave_rails/issues/31) · 2025-05-01 · closed · external user · 9 comments

### Tidewave MCP + mcp-proxy not compatible with Codex CLI

### Which editor/MCP client are you using?

Codex CLI

### Are you using a MCP proxy?

was using mcp-proxy, but after the SSE -> Streamable HTTP update it doesn't work for Codex

### Is your web application working correctly?

* Host localhost:3100 was resolved. * IPv6: ::1 * IPv4: 127.0.0.1 *   Trying [::1]:3100... * Connected to localhost (::1) port 3100 > GET /tidewave/mcp HTTP/1.1 > Host: localhost:3100 > User-Agent: curl/8.7.1 > Accept: */* >  * Request completely sent off < HTTP/1.1 405 Me

[Read the thread](https://github.com/tidewave-ai/tidewave_rails/issues/95) · 2025-11-04 · closed · external user · 7 comments

### get_logs tool fails with large log files causing HTTP 500 errors

# Issue: get_logs tool fails with large log files

## Problem Description

The `get_logs` tool fails with HTTP 500 errors when the log file is very large, causing timeouts and memory overflow.

## Root Cause Analysis

The `get_logs` tool uses a hardcoded file path and attempts to read the entire log file into memory:

```ruby
def call(tail:, grep: nil)
  log_file = Rails.root.join("log", "#{Rails.env}.log")
  return "Log file not found" unless File.exist?(log_file)
  
  logs = File.readlines(log

[Read the thread](https://github.com/tidewave-ai/tidewave_rails/issues/86) · 2025-09-15 · closed · outside contributor · 6 comments

### Could not connect to your app MCP error -32001

### Which editor/MCP client are you using?

gem install tidewave; rails server -p 3003

### Are you using a MCP proxy?

No

### Is your web application working correctly?

➜  ~ curl -v http://localhost:3003/tidewave/mcp  * Host localhost:3003 was resolved. * IPv6: ::1 * IPv4: 127.0.0.1 *   Trying [::1]:3003... * connect to ::1 port 3003 from ::1 port 57474 failed: Connection refused *   Trying 127.0.0.1:3003... * Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1) port 3003 > GET /tidewave/mcp HTTP/1.1 > Host: l

[Read the thread](https://github.com/tidewave-ai/tidewave_rails/issues/78) · 2025-08-22 · closed · external user · 6 comments

### Doesn't work with falcon webserver

When I use the [falcon](https://github.com/socketry/falcon) webserver instead of the default puma, I get an error when attempting a request to `/tidewave/mcp`:

```
Started GET "/tidewave/mcp" for ::1 at 2025-05-08 18:45:15 +0000

NoMethodError (undefined method 'rewind' for nil)
Caused by: NoMethodError (undefined method 'read' for nil)

Information for: NoMethodError (undefined method 'rewind' for nil):

tidewave (0.1.2) lib/tidewave/tool_resolver.rb:43:in 'Tidewave::ToolResolver#extract_reque

[Read the thread](https://github.com/tidewave-ai/tidewave_rails/issues/38) · 2025-05-08 · closed · external user · 6 comments

### Most recent

### FastMCP incompatible with Dry::Schema

### Current behavior

Dry::Schemas fail to load due to an invalid monkey patch in FastMCP, see https://github.com/yjacquin/fast-mcp/pull/161.

### Expected behavior

Meanwhile, you can add this to your `config/environments/development.rb` to fix it:

```ruby
  Dry::Schema::Macros::Hash.class_eval do
    def call(*args, &block)
      if block
        # Use current context to track nested context if available
        context = MetadataContext.current
        if context
          context.with_neste

[Read the thread](https://github.com/tidewave-ai/tidewave_rails/issues/98) · 2025-11-25 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

### Cannot Authenticate MCP

### Which editor/MCP client are you using?

Claude Code

### Are you using a MCP proxy?

no

### Is your web application working correctly?

curl -v http://localhost:4000/tidewave/mcp * Host localhost:4000 was resolved. * IPv6: ::1 * IPv4: 127.0.0.1 *   Trying [::1]:4000... * Connected to localhost (::1) port 4000 > GET /tidewave/mcp HTTP/1.1 > Host: localhost:4000 > User-Agent: curl/8.7.1 > Accept: */* > * Request completely sent off < HTTP/1.1 405 Method Not Allowed < Content-Type: application

[Read the thread](https://github.com/tidewave-ai/tidewave_rails/issues/96) · 2025-11-09 · closed · external user · 2 comments

### Main+latest fast_mcp is not compatible with Tidewave

### Which editor/MCP client are you using?

Tidewave

### Are you using a MCP proxy?

No

### Is your web application working correctly?

Yes

### What is your operating system?

All

### What is your Tidewave version?

Main

### Current behavior

`project_eval` is failing.

### Expected behavior

`project_eval` should work.

[Read the thread](https://github.com/tidewave-ai/tidewave_rails/issues/91) · 2025-10-01 · open · outside contributor · 2 comments

### Rails: Server fails to start `No such middleware to insert before: Rails::Rack::Logger` if there is no `Rails::Rack::Logger`

Thanks for tidewave! 🎉 Very excited about the direction of the project.

### Which editor/MCP client are you using?

n/a

### Are you using a MCP proxy?

n/a

### Is your web application working correctly?

no

### What is your operating system?

mac

### What is your Tidewave version?

0.3.1

### Current behavior

Error: `No such middleware to insert before: Rails::Rack::Logger`

FYI, if the `Rails::Rack::Logger` doesn't exist, this will throw an error and the server won't start. Maybe that's o

[Read the thread](https://github.com/tidewave-ai/tidewave_rails/issues/87) · 2025-09-18 · closed · external user · 3 comments

### can't open Tidewave after upgrade

### What is your operating system?

MacOS Tahoe

### What is your Ruby version?

3.4.5

### What is your Ruby on Rails version?

main

### What is your Tidewave version?

0.3.0

### Current behavior

After updating the gem, I can no longer access `/tidewave`, it shows a blank screen, and this error on the devtools console

```json
{"project_name":"Switchboard","framework_type":"rails","tidewave_version":"0.3.0","team":{}}
[
  {
    "expected": "string",
    "code": "invalid_type",
    "path": [

[Read the thread](https://github.com/tidewave-ai/tidewave_rails/issues/83) · 2025-09-08 · closed · external user · 4 comments

### Use streamable http transport instead of SSE

### What is your operating system?

All

### What is your Ruby version?

All

### What is your Ruby on Rails version?

All

### What is your Tidewave version?

All

### Current behavior

It uses SSE.

### Expected behavior

It should use streamable http for better web server compatibility.

[Read the thread](https://github.com/tidewave-ai/tidewave_rails/issues/81) · 2025-09-03 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

### Tidewave for Rails cannot connect to my application

### What is your operating system?

Arch Linux

### What is your Ruby version?

3.4.5

### What is your Ruby on Rails version?

8.0.2.1

### What is your Tidewave version?

0.2.0

### Current behavior

When opening the UI and logging in I receive the following and an eternal loading spinner

Failed to establish MCP connection using streamable HTTP transport, trying SSE transport.

### Expected behavior

It works :D

[Read the thread](https://github.com/tidewave-ai/tidewave_rails/issues/80) · 2025-09-03 · closed · external user · 2 comments

[See all 19 reports Pod holds for Tidewave Rails Desktop Extension](/mcp/tidewave-rails-desktop-extension/issues) — of 28 qualified upstream.

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