Dev Thoughts

Talk by Christoph Gockel

What is Rails?

It's like a city. Each module is like a different part of a city.

Areas of Freedom in Rails

Status Quo

Pareto principle: 80/20 principle. 80% of Rails applications only use around 20% of the Rails framework.

Analyzing the Boot Process

• Skipping the rails/all flag and only pick and choose the components needed
• Bundle.require(*Rails.groups)
• config.active_support.bare = true
• config.auto_load = false
• Monkeypatch constantize
• Will need to require any needed libraries on a file by file basis

Practical Tips

Break up your spec helpers

• spec_helper.rb - Rspec and helpers
• rails_spec_helper.rb - spec_helper.rb and Rails

Conventions are heuristics, not rules

Rails offers enough flexibility in order to support different implementation options.

Architecture

• Clean architecture (use case implementations)
• Hexagonal architecture
• Service layer architecture

Book recommendation: Domain Driven Design

Final Notes

Know your tools, keep asking why you are following patterns to ensure it's the right process.