Here's to the crazy ones

We regress around 13 years back into Rails history to revisit a personal journey I took with Rails, and some thoughts about how that might relate to Rails in the future

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1. Here’s to the crazy ones
   lazyatom.com/crazy-ones
   

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4. – Me, on a mailing list of friends, Thursday, 16 Aug 2001
   “I forsake Java! I renounce C++! All hail
   The Mighty RUBY!!”
   2.upto(100) do |num|
   puts "Ruby is #{num} times better that Java or C++"
   end
   

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10. Rails 5.2
    Active Storage
    Redis Cache Store
    HTTP/2 Early Hints
    Credentials
    

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11. Rails 5.1
    Yarn/Webpacker Integration
    System Tests
    Encrypted Secrets
    Parameterised Mailers
    

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12. Rails 5.0
    Action Cable
    API Mode
    Turbolinks 5
    

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13. Rails 4.2
    Active Job
    Asynchronous Mailers
    Adequate Record
    Web Console
    

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14. Rails 4.1
    Spring
    Template Variants
    Enums
    Mailer Previews
    

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15. Rails 4.0
    Russian Doll Caching
    Turbolinks
    Live Streaming
    Strong Parameters
    

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16. Rails 3.2
    Faster Development Mode
    Faster Routing Engine
    Active Record Store
    Strong Parameters
    

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17. Rails 3.1
    Asset Pipeline
    HTTP Streaming
    Full Engines!
    Identity Map
    Reversible Migrations
    

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18. Rails 3.0
    ARel
    Active Model
    Significant Internal Refactoring
    Bundler
    Railtie API
    

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19. Rails 2.3
    Application Templates
    Rack
    Engines! Sort-of!
    Rails Metal
    Nested Forms
    

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20. Rails 2.2
    Internationalisation
    HTTP Validators
    Thread Safety
    Database Connection Pool
    

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21. Rails 2.1
    Time Zones
    Dirty Attribute Tracking
    Named Scopes
    Better Caching
    

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22. Rails 2.0
    Resources
    MultiView
    Cookie Store Sessions
    “Sexy” Migrations
    

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23. Rails 1.2
    RESTful Routes
    Formats
    Multibyte Support
    Autoloading
    

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24. Rails 1.1
    RJS (Javascript written in Ruby)
    Polymorphic Associations
    Eager Loading
    respond_to
    

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25. Rails 1.0
    Dynamic Finders
    Filter Controls
    redirect_to :back
    

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26. Rails 0.14
    Plugins
    Cleaner Configuration
    Gem Freezing
    

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27. Rails 0.13
    Migrations
    Ajax
    Scriptaculous Visual Effects
    Named Routes
    

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28. Application 1 Application 2
    Application 3 Application 4
    

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29. Sharing code between apps in 2005
    Railtie inside a gem
    Plugin
    A regular gem
    … guess we better make it
    

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30. Application 1 Application 2
    Application 3 Application 4
    

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31. Application 1 Application 2
    Application 3 Application 4
    engines.rb
    

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34. – François
    “Thanks! These engines are
    great — this is the most excited
    I’ve been since finding Rails.”
    

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35. – Robert
    “Sweet stuff! "Most
    coolest" plugin yet !
    Nice "”
    

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36. – Ramin
    “Amazing. Great job!
    Go see it! GO GO GO!”
    

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37. – Scott
    “This is just awesome. […] This is the
    real answer to the reuse question. I just
    tried the login engine, and it totally
    works, easy! Wowee zowee...”
    

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38. ENGINES
    INSIDE OTHER ENGINES
    

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40. –DHH
    “It's a tale of caution, not condemnation”
    

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41. –DHH
    “It's a tale of caution, not condemnation”
    

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43. Hey, here’s an idea
    OK, but y’know, be careful
    

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44. Hey, here’s an idea
    OK, but y’know, be careful
    Genuine stock image
    for “excited developer”
    Genuine stock image
    for “angry developer”
    

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45. 2005-2008
    

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46. 2005-2008
    

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51. Some Guy said about 17 hours later:
    Engines are in fact
    de facto evil
    

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54. https://www.flickr.com/photos/etlund/539344246
    

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56. https://www.flickr.com/photos/robbyrussell
    

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64. –Rails Envy Podcast #51
    “Kinda like Rails Engines… but
    doesn’t suck?”
    “Exactly.”
    (On the topic of Merb slices)
    

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65. “Engines
    aren’t
    evil”
    

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66. November 2008
    

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67. November 2008
    

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68. November 2008
    

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69. THE END
    

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70. [ insert coding montage ]
    

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71. Engines plugin features
    Controllers, Helpers, Views
    Models
    Routes
    Migrations
    Assets
    

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72. + =
    

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73. class Rails::Application
    < Rails::Engine
    

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74. Engines plugin features
    Controllers, Helpers, Views
    Models
    Routes
    Migrations
    Assets
    

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75. Technology Trigger
    Peak of
    Inflated
    Expectations
    Trough of
    Disillusionment
    Slope of
    Enlightenment
    Plateau of
    Productivity
    

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76. Technology Trigger
    Peak of
    Inflated Expectations
    2005 2011
    

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77. Technology Trigger
    Peak of
    Inflated Expectations
    Trough of
    Received
    Opinions
    Slope of Fear,
    Uncertainty and
    Doubt
    Plateau of “Oh, are
    those still a thing?”
    2005 2011
    

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78. –Ryan Bigg & Yehuda Katz, Rails 3 in Action, Manning Publications, 2011
    “There was a lot of controversy
    surrounding engines, and James spent a
    lot of his time defending the decision to
    develop them. Since then, however, the
    community has grown to accept the idea.”
    

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80. Application 1 Application 2
    Application 3 Application 4
    

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81. Application 1 Application 2
    Application 3 Application 4
    

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82. The Doctrine
    

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83. Engines you may know
    Devise
    Spree
    Refinery CMS
    Active Storage
    

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84. Donate to archive.org
    Almost every site I referenced here is gone
    

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85. Donate to archive.org
    Almost every site I referenced here is gone
    

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87. A History of Opinions
    The History of Rails
    

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88. String#capitalize
    Array#forty_two
    

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89. resource :session
    

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90. Model-centric ▶ Resource-centric controllers (2.0)
    RJS & Scriptaculous ▶ UJS & jQuery (3.1)
    Observers ▶ Concerns (4.0)
    

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91. Active Resource ▶ Nothing (Monoliths?) (4.0)
    

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93. Majestic Monolith vs. Microservices
    Fat Models vs. Presenters
    Callbacks vs. Service Objects
    System Tests vs. Unit Testing & Stubs
    Fixtures vs. Factories
    

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95. H A N A M I
    rom.rb
    dry-rb
    

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96. The Doctrine
    

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97. Hey, I have an idea!
    

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98. Hey, I have an idea!
    Some Guy said about 12 seconds later:
    Your idea is in fact
    de facto evil
    

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102. . I’ve written about it here: http://t.co/…
     

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105. Pearls, not diamonds
     

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106. Thanks!
     lazyatom.com/crazy-ones
     (it really is the end now)
     

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