Lotus: because sometimes you need to reinvent the wheel

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1. lotus sometimes you need to reinvent the wheel

2. Arjan van der Gaag @avdgaag brightin

3. Lotus is a Ruby MVC web framework comprised of many

   micro-libraries. It has a simple, stable API, a minimal DSL, and prioritises the use of plain objects over magical, over- complicated classes with too much responsibility.

4. standalone frameworks

5. standalone frameworks to build full-stack applications

6. from small endpoints… require 'bundler/setup' require 'lotus/router' run Lotus::Router.new {

   get '/', to: ->(env) { [200, {}, ['Hello, world'] } }

7. …to containers

8. some conventions

9. some conventions many objects

10. some conventions many objects no monkey patches

11. simplicity > convenience

12. testable class Show include Lotus::Action expose :book def initialize(repository: BookRepository)

    @repository = repository end def call(params) @book = @repository.find params[:id] end end

13. focus on maintenance

14. writing Ruby is fun

15. Guides and docs at lotusrb.org

16. @avdgaag arjanvandergaag.nl