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Ruby on Rails: The Documentary [video]

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Re: Ruby on Rails: The Documentary [video]

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I had a lot of fun watching this documentary. The one person framework really comes out in the personal story of Toby from Shopify. "From Hello World to IPO". What I also loved is that he mentioned that if you open up any Rails application, it looks basically the same in structure whether it is the biggest Rails app there is or a new one. Sure that can be true for many apps, but in a world of, for example, APIs and front-end stacks, that isn't always the case.

The latest developments in Rails are making the solid foundation even more solid. There is stuff happening to make infrastructure easier: Kamal sure, but also Solid Cache and Solid Queue and there is a lot happening in the front-end with Turbo (Morphing) and mobile apps with Turbo Native and Strada.

We have upgrade to 7.1 already and have a mobile app in production that is built with Turbo Native. I am also excited to start replacing our Redis cache with Solid Cache to make everything simpler and cached longer.

Great to see the Rails community so alive and see the deep connection the (ex) core team members have to the framework!

Re: Ruby on Rails: The Documentary [video]

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Well done. One thing that struck me is how young the framework is in the big scheme of things. When I first got into programming around 10 years ago, people were already writing articles about how Rails was near obsolete so without giving it much thought I assumed it was from… maybe the early 90s?

Re: Ruby on Rails: The Documentary [video]

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Two figures that inspired me were missing, why the lucky stiff and Ryan Bates from railcasts fame. Otherwise great docu with DHH "f*uk you" slide which does give an insight into successful open source projects.

I'm always here to speak praises for Ryan Bates. His practical videos to build features was a huge insight for me as a junior developer at the time.

Re: Ruby on Rails: The Documentary [video]

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I had a lot of fun watching this documentary. The one person framework really comes out in the personal story of Toby from Shopify. "From Hello World to IPO". What I also loved is that he mentioned that if you open up any Rails application, it looks basically the same in structure whether it is the biggest Rails app there is or a new one. Sure that can be true for many apps, but in a world of, for example, APIs and f…

>if you open up any Rails application, it looks basically the same in structure whether it is the biggest Rails app there is or a new one

I've never worked with Rails, but this sounds amazing. One of the things I really hate about the Node.js ecosystem is that there are no clear conventions, the structure is always different even when the same framework is used. It's a mess. The exception is probably Next.js but it's more frontend-y.

Re: Ruby on Rails: The Documentary [video]

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Two figures that inspired me were missing, why the lucky stiff and Ryan Bates from railcasts fame. Otherwise great docu with DHH "f*uk you" slide which does give an insight into successful open source projects.

Ryan Bates is a legend

Ryan did so much for the rails community and all because of the joy for RoR.

Unfortunately iirc Ryan suffered a burnout and had a lengthy break. I hope all that is better now.

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