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For what it's worth, the last few years our we've sliced off a few custom client apps in Rails and it's felt like a great tailwind. We've been running a profitable BI app for aroun…

A lot of people seem to overcomplicate it by bringing their thoughts on how other modern js apps are written. It would be helpful to have a specific example of some of the things y…

Some of the most enlightening books I’ve read when I was first learning Ruby were Text Processing in Ruby, and Building Awesome Command Line Apps in Ruby 2. They each reveal certai…

It is pretty cool. I’ve been using it for 3-4 years as a queue between Ruby and Node for scraping tasks. Ruby queues the work, a node worker does the downloading, and a Ruby proces…

I think that's a great argument to consider when framing this concept to someone the first time. Avoid the `implicit return` language altogether. Instead focus on the expressions. …

I usually drink the DHH koolaide when it comes to Rails decisions, but I'm surprised by this decision exactly because of his arguments against being forced to write specific styles…

I'm fluent in Ruby, and have nearly zero experience in the other languages featured in this article. The `implicit return` is often something people find rather willy-nilly when fi…

I can appreciate that. There's a few revelations I've had over the years of learning Ruby that highlighted "why things are as they are". Decisions that feel arbitrary and against t…

I usually conditionally include the visibility toggle class from the erb side, so the first time it renders as html it has the toggle correctly initiated. I can see situations wher…

In addition to the Ruby under a Microscope (linked elsewhere), a lot of talks from Aaron Patterson (Tenderlove) are enlightening in this regard. I've learned a lot from them, and t…

I would suggest that the Rails scene is at least worth checking out. I’ve seen a number of people move from .NET or Node to Ruby and Rails and thoroughly enjoy it, with little desi…

> Is Rails still into magic? Yes, but you too [can join the magicians guild]( https://guides.rubyonrails.org/ ). They are very open. In fact, they even share with anyone [every sin…

New Rails 8 feature? (I’ll see myself out).

There’s even a book about that! https://datavisualizationtoolkit.com/ Who would have thought that the “Data Visualization Toolkit” would be about Rails? Turns out, it’s pretty swee…