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