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Re: Rails 6.1

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Post by inopinatus »

sinsterizme wrote: post #78
inopinatus wrote: post #26

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In conjunction with Rails's "russian-doll" caching, N+1 queries are (or at least, can be) a good thing. This sounds counterintuitive; but, in the common case of read-heavy services, N ≐ 0 after the first access. When something changes, subsequent views end up loading & rendering the one record that changed, instead of preloading an entire collection. However, achieving this in practice requires some care in the nesti…

Hey, just wanted to thank you for the link. This sent me down a deep rabbit-hole of DHH interviews! I'm surprised I haven't taken notice of him before, he has so many profound insights. I am really grateful :)

You're welcome. I think he's a deceptively clear thinker, by which I mean, DHH tends to supply a correct and insightful answer without discussing all the potentially wrong ones, or even unpacking all the insights contained within. It's left as an exercise for the student to realise how any particular "road not taken" would've been inconsistent with Rails's underlying principles.

I don't mind that, since I've chosen to infer an assumption that we're all as smart as he is. (even if it does then take me years to explain things to myself...)

If you didn't find it already, his "On Writing Software Well" video series is a fascinating, and sadly abbreviated, journey into his own application code.

Re: Rails 6.1

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Post by sinsterizme »

inopinatus wrote: post #81
sinsterizme wrote: post #78

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Hey, just wanted to thank you for the link. This sent me down a deep rabbit-hole of DHH interviews! I'm surprised I haven't taken notice of him before, he has so many profound insights. I am really grateful :)

You're welcome. I think he's a deceptively clear thinker, by which I mean, DHH tends to supply a correct and insightful answer without discussing all the potentially wrong ones, or even unpacking all the insights contained within. It's left as an exercise for the student to realise how any particular "road not taken" would've been inconsistent with Rails's underlying principles. I don't mind that, since I've chosen t…

Brilliant, I actually had not found that, thanks for the recommendation once again!

Re: Rails 6.1

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Post by AlchemistCamp »

freehunter wrote: post #79
AlchemistCamp wrote: post #24

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> I started looking into the Elixir/Phoenix world just for LiveView but I don't really want to switch languages... Yes, you want to add languages ! Join us...

Haha I would love to and it seems like a really great language/community/ecosystem. I'm just a part-time developer though, so my "coding time" is extremely limited and mainly just around scratching an itch as quickly as possible. I'm confident Elixir/Phoenix would give me that speed and comfort too, but I already know Rails and the time I would spend learning Elixir/Phoenix just to get access to LiveView would be bet…

Yeah, that makes sense. For smaller projects, I don't think anything matches Ruby in terms of pure solo-dev productivity. I still use it for scripting.

One thing I would advise, given your situation, is to avoid full-blown SPAs. You can use something like Stimulus Reflux and be way more productive than going down the whole React/Redux/library explosion rabbit hole. Ditto for spending a lot of time on Kubernetes, Docker, etc.

If you're not a full-time dev, just do things with the minimum abstraction needed.

Re: Rails 6.1

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Post by dmix »

mhoad wrote: post #6

It's a really nice time to be a Ruby / Rails developer. Rails itself has made some really nice improvements with this release and there is also the "NEW MAGIC" should be following in the next couple of days which is currently being sold as what Rails was to the back end, this will be to the front end. Ruby 3 is also just a few days away which brings optional type checking to helps add some additional structure to lar…

It's always a goods time to be a Rails developer employment-wise as well.

I recently saw a report on w3 showing Ruy is now more popular server-side than Java.

https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/programming_langua...

Re: Rails 6.1

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Post by freehunter »

AlchemistCamp wrote: post #83
freehunter wrote: post #79

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Haha I would love to and it seems like a really great language/community/ecosystem. I'm just a part-time developer though, so my "coding time" is extremely limited and mainly just around scratching an itch as quickly as possible. I'm confident Elixir/Phoenix would give me that speed and comfort too, but I already know Rails and the time I would spend learning Elixir/Phoenix just to get access to LiveView would be bet…

Yeah, that makes sense. For smaller projects, I don't think anything matches Ruby in terms of pure solo-dev productivity. I still use it for scripting. One thing I would advise, given your situation, is to avoid full-blown SPAs. You can use something like Stimulus Reflux and be way more productive than going down the whole React/Redux/library explosion rabbit hole. Ditto for spending a lot of time on Kubernetes, Dock…

You're spot on. I tried React and Vue and it just adds so much complexity for a solo dev. Right now I'm just using tiny bits of JS here and there, but I'm really hungry for something like LiveView that would let me do interactive front-ends while not having to manage state and authentication on the front-end.

Re: Rails 6.1

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Post by digianarchist »

shaicoleman wrote: post #39
Dirlewanger wrote: post #15

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>Ruby 3 Oh shit, I didn't realize that that's the scheduled Christmas release. Finally, all strings frozen by default!

Ruby 3.0 will not have frozen strings by default: https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/11473#note-53

I was hoping to remove this line from almost every file in a few projects at work:

    # frozen_string_literal: true
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