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

1. Here’s to the crazy ones lazyatom.com/crazy-ones
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
10. Rails 5.2 Active Storage Redis Cache Store HTTP/2 Early Hints Credentials
11. Rails 5.1 Yarn/Webpacker Integration System Tests Encrypted Secrets Parameterised Mailers
12. Rails 5.0 Action Cable API Mode Turbolinks 5
13. Rails 4.2 Active Job Asynchronous Mailers Adequate Record Web Console
14. Rails 4.1 Spring Template Variants Enums Mailer Previews
15. Rails 4.0 Russian Doll Caching Turbolinks Live Streaming Strong Parameters
16. Rails 3.2 Faster Development Mode Faster Routing Engine Active Record Store Strong Parameters
17. Rails 3.1 Asset Pipeline HTTP Streaming Full Engines! Identity Map Reversible Migrations
18. Rails 3.0 ARel Active Model Significant Internal Refactoring Bundler Railtie API
19. Rails 2.3 Application Templates Rack Engines! Sort-of! Rails Metal Nested Forms
20. Rails 2.2 Internationalisation HTTP Validators Thread Safety Database Connection Pool
21. Rails 2.1 Time Zones Dirty Attribute Tracking Named Scopes Better Caching
22. Rails 2.0 Resources MultiView Cookie Store Sessions “Sexy” Migrations
23. Rails 1.2 RESTful Routes Formats Multibyte Support Autoloading
24. Rails 1.1 RJS (Javascript written in Ruby) Polymorphic Associations Eager Loading respond_to
25. Rails 1.0 Dynamic Finders Filter Controls redirect_to :back
26. Rails 0.14 Plugins Cleaner Configuration Gem Freezing
27. Rails 0.13 Migrations Ajax Scriptaculous Visual Effects Named Routes
28. Application 1 Application 2 Application 3 Application 4
29. Sharing code between apps in 2005 Railtie inside a gem Plugin A regular gem … guess we better make it
30. Application 1 Application 2 Application 3 Application 4
31. Application 1 Application 2 Application 3 Application 4 engines.rb
34. – François “Thanks! These engines are great — this is the most excited I’ve been since finding Rails.”
35. – Robert “Sweet stuff! "Most coolest" plugin yet ! Nice "”
36. – Ramin “Amazing. Great job! Go see it! GO GO GO!”
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...”
38. ENGINES INSIDE OTHER ENGINES
40. –DHH “It's a tale of caution, not condemnation”
41. –DHH “It's a tale of caution, not condemnation”
43. Hey, here’s an idea OK, but y’know, be careful
44. Hey, here’s an idea OK, but y’know, be careful Genuine stock image for “excited developer” Genuine stock image for “angry developer”
45. 2005-2008
46. 2005-2008
51. Some Guy said about 17 hours later: Engines are in fact de facto evil
54. https://www.flickr.com/photos/etlund/539344246
56. https://www.flickr.com/photos/robbyrussell
64. –Rails Envy Podcast #51 “Kinda like Rails Engines… but doesn’t suck?” “Exactly.” (On the topic of Merb slices)
65. “Engines aren’t evil”
66. November 2008
67. November 2008
68. November 2008
69. THE END
70. [ insert coding montage ]
71. Engines plugin features Controllers, Helpers, Views Models Routes Migrations Assets
72. + =
73. class Rails::Application < Rails::Engine
74. Engines plugin features Controllers, Helpers, Views Models Routes Migrations Assets
75. Technology Trigger Peak of Inflated Expectations Trough of Disillusionment Slope of Enlightenment Plateau of Productivity
76. Technology Trigger Peak of Inflated Expectations 2005 2011
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
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.”
80. Application 1 Application 2 Application 3 Application 4
81. Application 1 Application 2 Application 3 Application 4
82. The Doctrine
83. Engines you may know Devise Spree Refinery CMS Active Storage
84. Donate to archive.org Almost every site I referenced here is gone
85. Donate to archive.org Almost every site I referenced here is gone
87. A History of Opinions The History of Rails
88. String#capitalize Array#forty_two
89. resource :session
90. Model-centric ▶ Resource-centric controllers (2.0) RJS & Scriptaculous ▶ UJS & jQuery (3.1) Observers ▶ Concerns (4.0)
91. Active Resource ▶ Nothing (Monoliths?) (4.0)
93. Majestic Monolith vs. Microservices Fat Models vs. Presenters Callbacks vs. Service Objects System Tests vs. Unit Testing & Stubs Fixtures vs. Factories
95. H A N A M I rom.rb dry-rb
96. The Doctrine
97. Hey, I have an idea!
98. Hey, I have an idea! Some Guy said about 12 seconds later: Your idea is in fact de facto evil
102. . I’ve written about it here: http://t.co/…
105. Pearls, not diamonds
106. Thanks! lazyatom.com/crazy-ones (it really is the end now)