Building GitHub with Ruby on Rails
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Building GitHub with Ruby on Rails
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Re: Building GitHub with Ruby on Rails
#2We are also running on Rails - and loving it, too.
However, incorporating this methodology into our workflow would be both a lot of work to set up and also a lot of work to keep running.
There certainly is a size threshold under which this is clearly an overkill and we are under that threshold.
Yet, if this could be turned into a product, a clean integration, a command I need to run... would definitely use it (and pay for it).
Re: Building GitHub with Ruby on Rails
#3I absolutely love Rails. I'll always remember back in 2010 catching the train to Waterloo station in London and seeing a huge sign overlooking the train tracks that read something like "We Need Rails Developers".
Rails was such a huge part of my professional career.
Now, 13 years later and I'm deep in the JavaScript ecosystem and have been for 8 years.
The most exciting thing to come out of this ecosystem recently is RedwoodJS, because it takes a lot of inspiration from Rails.
Re: Building GitHub with Ruby on Rails
#4Is that two millions LOC for a single Rails application or across various Rails applications?
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#5Is that two millions LOC for a single Rails application or across various Rails applications?
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#6Is that two millions LOC for a single Rails application or across various Rails applications?
They call it a monolith and the way they describe it I think they are using that term for the application rather than the repo.
Re: Building GitHub with Ruby on Rails
#7We are also running on Rails - and loving it, too. However, incorporating this methodology into our workflow would be both a lot of work to set up and also a lot of work to keep running. There certainly is a size threshold under which this is clearly an overkill and we are under that threshold. Yet, if this could be turned into a product, a clean integration, a command I need to run... would definitely use it (and pa…
On the contrary, it is so much easier to upgrade a small app every week or so because you have little to test and probability of breaking changes affecting you is minimal.
You should be upgrading all the time since day one, adding necessary infrastructure gradually as your app grows.
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#8Is that two millions LOC for a single Rails application or across various Rails applications?
They keep saying "monolith".
Re: Building GitHub with Ruby on Rails
#9GitHub running off the main branch is fascinating, and initially sounds mad, but makes so much sense. Assuming they have very high test coverage, running against mainline Rails isn't really any different to having the fork they had before, but they have more influence on future development.
It must also be a massive boon for the Rails ecosystem to have such a large property running off the head.
Doesn't anyone know of any Django shops that do the same, running off mainline?
Re: Building GitHub with Ruby on Rails
#10Working with Ruby and Rails since 2010 and absolutely loving it. Never ever looking back.