graphql VS Ruby on Rails

My memory is fuzzy, but...

1. all data flow through the rails app (no pre-signed s3 upload or download links for direct uploading).

2. no support for CDNs (I think newer rails versions added support)

3. blobs and attachments were unnecessary abstractions.

3a. Querying was annoying and easy to add n+1 queries.

3b. Images are moderated and it was unclear where to put the moderation metadata (on blobs? attachments? create a new table? why so many tables?). Accessing the data was annoying (you need extra joins).

4. GraphQL gem didn't support it: https://github.com/rmosolgo/graphql-ruby/issues/1777

In our Rails application, we use the popular graphql Ruby gem to resolve GraphQL queries. When used naively, it essentially resolves queries as a depth-first tree traversal, which leads to the N+1 problem in GraphQL.

If you're comfortable on the react/client side with graphql, I'd highly recommend plugging in https://graphql-ruby.org/

We use GraphQL, and Ruby GraphQL doesn't allow you to stream the result, it buffers it before sending back the request and there are no alternative. See my issue https://github.com/rmosolgo/graphql-ruby/issues/3969 -- Sadly there is only one library for GraphQL in Ruby.

graphql-ruby is a Ruby gem that implements the GraphQL specification and functionalities.

The next step is to add the GraphQL gem to our Gemfile; you can visit its page, graphql-ruby, for more details; now, open your Gemfile and add this line:

If you do go the API route though, strongly consider using GraphQL with the (graphql-ruby)[https://graphql-ruby.org/] gem.

GraphQL saves you time designing versioned REST endpoints. It self documents. Documentation isn't optional for serious web development so this is a huge win. The rails gems have gotten really good at picking up associations as well since I looked into a couple years ago. https://graphql-ruby.org

When it comes to implementing a GraphQL server in Rails, one can use the excellent GraphQL Ruby gem.

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.

Here's the GitHub milestone I've based this article on — https://github.com/rails/rails/milestone/87