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I'm Back, Ruby on Rails

by sharms on 8/13/24, 12:59 AM with 23 comments

• by xtracto on 8/14/24, 8:48 PM

  My company "inherited" some medium-sized Ruby on Rails codebase, and OMG what an abomination it is. Everything is "magic", everything is implicit and to find out what does what is horrible. I've done Ruby development in the past (production API with Sinatra) and it was OK, but I'll never start a "real life" project in Rails.

• by UweSchmidt on 8/14/24, 8:52 PM

  When I learned about Rails a long time ago I thought the idea of MVC, scaffolding, creating the database, code and frontend that works, i.e. a basic application was genius, but hasn't quite caught on it seems.

  Communities for RoR or Microsoft MVC could have created templates for all kinds of applications, and parameters with best-practice implementations of useful stuff like "jwt webtoken" could have been added and maybe implemented to work across different application templates?

  Maybe there are good reasons why this is not feasible on a fundamental, technical level, but maybe that's just a path not travelled, as the open source spirit fizzled out and people tried for their own unicorn app.

• by bitwize on 8/14/24, 10:07 PM

  Fast and unbreakable eh? Sounds like a job for Go without a framework.

• by pjd7 on 8/15/24, 12:30 AM

  Where does one find out about all of these conventions for rails?