Live data from Hacker News

An Overview Of Upcoming Ruby on Rails 7.1 Features Part 1

web.archive.org

1–10 of 132 posts

Re: An Overview Of Upcoming Ruby on Rails 7.1 Features Part 1

#3

I was a devoted rails fan 10 years ago, but haven't looked back since full stack typescript. What's the general vibe on RoR nowadays?

I use it daily for my company's API. It's still the most productive framework I've used, and I've used full stack Typescript too (i.e. the wild west).

Re: An Overview Of Upcoming Ruby on Rails 7.1 Features Part 1

#6
I was pretty sad to see the pattern matching PR reverted for 7.1 [0], but I guess the Rails team wants to make sure they nail the execution (?) even if that means being late to the pattern matching party, which is arguably one of the best additions to Ruby since the 1.9.3 hash syntax.

For now, I'm good with the little gem that kddnewton put together (https://github.com/kddnewton/rails-pattern_matching).

[0]: https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/45553

Re: An Overview Of Upcoming Ruby on Rails 7.1 Features Part 1

#7
Great to see so many new features in Rails. Tbh, one of the reasons I use it for certain backend projects is how simple to do complex things.

Managing files and image variants is a pain when developing a site. Rails make it easy and even adds more features around.

However, I still think the UI layer is too coupled to the backend. Webpacker was a try, but I understand why it's deprecated. I would go on supporting common frameworks, even if it's just a template to organize the code.

Re: An Overview Of Upcoming Ruby on Rails 7.1 Features Part 1

#9

I was a devoted rails fan 10 years ago, but haven't looked back since full stack typescript. What's the general vibe on RoR nowadays?

At the backend side, it makes easy to build websites. However, the UI layer is a bit complex to integrate with common framework libraries like Vue and React.

Although, I still use it in some projects :)

Re: An Overview Of Upcoming Ruby on Rails 7.1 Features Part 1

#10

I was a devoted rails fan 10 years ago, but haven't looked back since full stack typescript. What's the general vibe on RoR nowadays?

> What's the general vibe on RoR nowadays?

Most people that use it are fine and productive.

Because of lazy evaluation, type issues persist though. Plenty of instances of trying to call string methods on integers, and array methods on nil, and Rails devs in denial that that's a big problem as the app continues to grow.

Post reply on HN