Ruby on Rails: The Documentary [video]

Post by PH95VuimJjqBqy » Tue, Nov 14, 2023, 1:05 AM UTC

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.NET's LTS releases are supported for 3 years and STS are supported for 18 months. I wish LTS support was 5 years, it seems like ecosystem has matured enough post-going-OSS-wild-ride starting with .NET 6 release and is ready for such a support timeframe. Or at least they could have every other LTS be ELTS? Also, I do wonder if RoRs perceived productivity is by inertia? I have a hard time believing you can top the pro…

On the flip side, within the last few years, upgrading .NET versions has become typically a very easy exercise. The ASP.NET team tends to churn stuff wayyy more often than I'd like for questionable reasons, which can make keeping more painful than I'd like - but tbh I often just keep using the older ways of doing things in ASP.NET since it's almost always still supported...

Post by SkyPuncher » Tue, Nov 14, 2023, 1:36 AM UTC

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I've been a Rails dev for a long time. I've tried a bunch of things and keep coming back to it for the same reasons as you. I'm incredibly productive in it. For the longest time, my primary complaint has been a lack of documentation/conflicting information when you break from convention. It can be extremely challenging to find/understand the "blessed" way of doing things. Thankfully, ChatGPT is extremely good at prov…

Could you give an example of how ChatGPT helped you specifically with Rails?

Post by PH95VuimJjqBqy » Tue, Nov 14, 2023, 1:55 AM UTC

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I must be misunderstanding the question because anything that queries in rails uses AR and that's often done in both lib code and controller code rather than behind a dedicated module boundary. What is it that's not making sense to you?

> because anything that queries in rails uses AR and that's often done in both lib code and controller code How is that different from any other framework ever? You have to query the DB somewhere. Rails makes it incredibly easy to swap out databases. Much more so than any other platform I can think of. Nothing is making you use AR at all. This is a non issue.

Post by vario » Tue, Nov 14, 2023, 2:23 AM UTC

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I'm sorry you feel that way. Sure, Ruby is for anyone who wants to use it.

Post by vario » Tue, Nov 14, 2023, 2:33 AM UTC

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his 'artsyness' was the main reason I avoided learning Ruby for years-- wrongly thinking people who code in Ruby speak like him. I know this is a possibly unpopular opinion but I don't think one should glorify a sophomoric book as a key Ruby book-- there are others that deserve that title, PickAxe is close, but I'd have liked a book like Whittaker's "C#, Player Guide" for Ruby.

I absolutely loved _why's guide, not the least because it made certain very serious, over the top professional people very uncomfortable. Bullshit in the guise of Very Serious Business Software Engineering is still bullshit, but if you present something like it's a big joke to you, and it still shines, there probably is something to it. I feel a lot of present-day IT wouldn't pass that test.