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Is it just me, or is Ruby experiencing a renaissance of sorts? There has been a bunch of positive press, and the community seems more active and vibrant than ever?
Is it just me, or is Ruby experiencing a renaissance of sorts? There has been a bunch of positive press, and the community seems more active and vibrant than ever?
And on top of that Ruby itself has seen improvements from concurrency and parallelism to straight up speed gains, JITs, etc...
The biggest pain point was the lack of Grade A documentation for the best way to use ActionCable and Turbo – information is spread out between Rails Guides, API docs, and then the Turbo / Stimulus documentation. The actual API docs do a poor job of explaining basic concepts like "streamables", and I kept wondering if I was doing things the "right"/idiomatic way.
Still, as always, ActiveRecord is my biggest draw for Rails, and the new first-class Sqlite integrations are a huge draw for me. I've yet to find an ORM that allows me to be anywhere near as productive.
Is it just me, or is Ruby experiencing a renaissance of sorts? There has been a bunch of positive press, and the community seems more active and vibrant than ever?
With Rails 8 they really knocked it out of the park. Now there are real compelling reasons to use Rails 8. The job system, the auth generator, the rich text inputs, the file uploads, shit -- they have so much just baked in and omakase'd to death. It's quite an achievement. And it's beautiful to use. You get a phoenix liveview "feel" without breaking out of Rails vibes. If that makes sense.
I'm using it for a pet project of mine and have a really smooth experience leaving Elixir dayjob and jumping into Rails.
Is it just me, or is Ruby experiencing a renaissance of sorts? There has been a bunch of positive press, and the community seems more active and vibrant than ever?
I used to work primarily in Rails from Rails 3 and 4, then stopped to work with Go, then finally Elixir since 2016. For a long while there Rails was left behind with the crazy growth of clientside javascript and react. It was destined to become a BackboneJS/EmberJS of sorts, a once big thing but now dead and legacy. With Rails 8 they really knocked it out of the park. Now there are real compelling reasons to use Rail…
To anyone who enjoys contorting the language to make it do weird things for fun, quines, and those sort of things, I really recommend Tomoya Ishida's talk at RubyKaigi 2024. It's in Japanese, but there are subtitles, and the slides speak for themselves. Some of the more whimsical uses of Ruby I've seen in a while. Keyword to peak your interest: animated quines.
Really nice to see a deployed modern Rails site. I just recently decided to try Rails 8 out for a side-project of mine (Paranoia RPG virtual table top) and had a generally pleasant experience. The biggest pain point was the lack of Grade A documentation for the best way to use ActionCable and Turbo – information is spread out between Rails Guides, API docs, and then the Turbo / Stimulus documentation. The actual API…