csvbase VS Ruby on Rails

> really what they do is _lean into_ and extend what's already there.

Yeah I think that's key. There are already so many features implemented in unix/the web/python/etc that it's easiest just to go along with what is there. For example, csvbase logs to the systemd journal (when run under systemd - stderr otherwise):

https://github.com/calpaterson/csvbase/blob/c1523615f10bbaa7...

One under recognised thing about systemd is that it provides a mini-ELK stack - so now I have indexed, searchable logs that auto-rotate and whatever (the defaults are quite good). I realise a lot of people strongly dislike systemd but I think this is a very nice feature for running services of this scale.

Cool, that fills in some background. I've seen some people uploading what looked like genetics data into csvbase but wasn't too sure what they were doing. csvbase does support range requests (but i actually haven't implemented tsv yet - just filed that here)

You are most welcome. So glad it is useful.

This subject tracked here: https://github.com/calpaterson/csvbase/issues/29

Industry adoption - Without including the adoption of other popular and more established frameworks like Python, React, C#, and others, if we consider the adoption of Ruby frameworks, Rails easily eclipses Hanami. The Rails homepage lists some big-name organizations using the framework. On the other hand, as the new kid on the block, Hanami is not so widely adopted. We'll have to wait and see whether that will change in the future.

on April 23, 2024, a PR #51640 was merged into main branch of Ruby On Rails. This PR title is Use Module#include rather than prepend for faster method lookup.

[0] is a my favorite demonstration of it.

[0]: https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/b83965785db1eec019edf1...

Here's a real life example: Imagine a Ruby on Rails app on which a team of developers are working. The code is hosted on GitLab and all the work is coordinated using GitLab issues. In other words: For every commit, there's an associated issue and the issue number acts as a sort of primary key for documentation, time reporting and so forth. This convention has a few advantages, most notably the ability to easily learn more about how, when and by whom features were implemented as well as how this implementation came to be.

Ruby on Rails is regarded as one of the best ruby frameworks. It was the primary language in developing big projects such as Twitter and helped the language boost the community. Often referred to as “Rails,” Ruby on Rails is a web development framework with an MVC control structure and currently running its 6.1 version. The 16-year-old language has dramatically influenced the web development structures and managing databases, web pages, and other components on a web application.

In Rails 7.1, a new option _instance_methods is introduced, allowing developers to opt-out of the automatic generation of instance methods for enums. When enum is defined with _instance_methods: false, Rails will no longer generate methods like pending?, processed?, etc.

Rails isn't super opinionated about database writes, its mostly left up to developers to discover that for relational DBs you do not want to be doing a bunch of small writes all at once.

That said it specifically has tools to address this that started appearing a few years ago https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/35077

The way my team handles it is to stick Kafka in between whats generating the records (for us, a bunch of web scraping workers) and and a consumer that pulls off the Kafka queue and runs an insert when its internal buffer reaches around 50k rows.

Rails is also looking to add some more direct background type work with https://github.com/basecamp/solid_queue but this is still very new - most larger Rails shops are going to be running a second system and a gem called Sidekiq that pulls jobs out of Redis.

I'm looking forward to see what extractions from this will land on rails. For example: https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/50454

Here is what strict_loading does (source):

Kamal is a wonderfully simple way to deploy your applications anywhere. It will also be included by default in Rails 8. Kamal is trivial, but I don’t recommend using it on your development machine.