HTTP VS Ruby on Rails

Where's http.rb?

I had submitted a PR against this repo, but I believe the two most interesting types to match against are responses and requests:

http

In the past I have opted to use the HTTP.rb gem, but for simple tasks it’s really useful to learn Net/http or even open-uri for simple GET requests.

I actually like HTTP.rb's API more, but they still can't make a decision about "base URL" API, which is quite valuable for API wrappers, e.g. @client = HTTPLibrary.new('https://api.base.com/v2/') and then @client.get('/foo').

Everything will be created under the class Auth0, and it'll be using HTTP gem to perform the quests, but feel free to decide over your code organization and tools.

🛤️ Ruby on Rails:rubyonrails.org

On the back end, we worked to migrate data from Spark (a data processing engine) to a custom, in-house RETS (real estate transaction standard) aggregator, which helped dramatically grow the customer base. We also moved Agent Inbox to a hybrid solution using React.js and Ruby on Rails, replacing their single-page-application solution with server-side rendering to improve project stability and speed. (This move came from our experience knowing that small teams working on various platforms simultaneously often end up inadvertently wasting time and money.)

How to start using React components written in TypeScript using Ruby on Rails as a server with only built-in Rails features? There are a couple of ways we can achieve it with.

We rewrote and redesigned the entire user interface, contending with a very tight timeline, and we upgraded the existing code within Ruby on Rails, including all dependencies that were previously unsupported and thus creating security risks for the product.

And if you’re not familiar with tools like Laravel and Ruby-on-Rails, they are opinionated full-stack frameworks (for PHP and Ruby) with lots of built-in features that follow established conventions so that developers can write less boilerplate and more business logic, while getting the industry best practices baked into their app.

I don't think it is superfluous to clarify to folks who might not be familiar with Rails how migrations work. In Rails, we create classes for migrations in the db/migrate folder that inherit from ActiveRecord::Migration[:rails_version]. This is a good example of metaprogramming in Ruby. Instead of directly inheriting from the ActiveRecord::Migration class, ActiveRecord::Migration has redefined the [] (square brackets) method to dynamically create a class with features available for the specified Rails version and return it, so we can inherit from it. This allows us to use migrations created in previous versions of Rails even after updating Rails. The newly created class typically has two methods, up and down, which apply and revert the changes to the database, respectively. Alternatively, it might have a single change method if the changes can be automatically reversed by Rails. The name of the file containing the class starts with a 14-digit timestamp, and Rails maintains a table with one column containing these timestamps for executed migrations. This ensures that migrations are run only once and in the order they were created when you type rails db:migrate. This system ensures smooth database schema changes and consistency across different environments. It's important to mention that the SQL code we will write in the next section will be compiled and executed by the database engine, so if we need to make changes, we need to revert the migration, change the code, and execute it again. You can read more about migrations here: Rails Migrations Guide.

Ruby on Rails, in my opinion, is the most productive full-stack web framework to-date.

The Rails core team wanted to make it easy for today's and future Rails developers by providing a simple API for model attributes. All developers need to do is pass the attribute's name. Here is how they demonstrated their solution. Pow 💥

You may notice in the new_framework_defaults_7_0.rb file mentioning the impact of this change, which is cache invalidation. In order to gather some more information I looked at the ActiveSupport::Digest which basically has just 3 class methods, a setter & getter for hash_digest_class and the hexdigest method. Furthermore, I searched across the rails/rails repo to find the usage of ActiveSupport#hex_digest_class (if interested this link leads to the search results) to find most of its usage only around code that deals with caching. This included caching of views, active_record queries, http ETAGs and also cache keys for the cache store you have set e.g. redis, filestore etc.

Let’s look at two technical solutions — RSCSS/ITCSS. This is indeed a perfect combination of instruments which we use in our projects built on React and Ruby on Rails.