Rails World 2024 Opening Keynote - David Heinemeier Hansson

I highly recommend you watch the first half hour of DHH Rails World talk on Rails 8 even if you aren’t a Ruby dev: [VIDEO] The idea of Rails 8 is to move away from trend following and try to reject some of the ideas that have become popular in the industry (like being afraid to touch a Linux server or implementing your own auth). Really though provoking stuff.

Far too late for the edit window, but the keynote[1] is an absolute must-watch for anyone who does anything related to web development [1] [VIDEO]

> I wonder if there is some major propaganda push on HN to discourage actual software engineers from ever running their servers. Judging from the comments in this and similar posts, sounds like it is common belief that it's super expensive and a full time job to run bare metal services. AWS and GCP free credits have created a generation of developers that think running a webserver, a webapp and a database is rocket science, and when stuff breaks the whole company might go bankrupt because no one could ever save a corrupted database. Related to this observation you really should watch DHHs keynote talk at Rails World 2024 from about minute 20 to 30: [VIDEO] He addresses exactly this phenomenon. EDIT: changed URL to include timestamp to the start of the relevant content.

Context for people who might not get the joke/parody: SST adding containers to their stack might be viewed as a "betryal" in a similar way to how some basketball fans felt when LeBron James switched teams, from Cleveland Cavaliers to Miami Heat. LeBron had a media event/interview called "The Decision" [1]. I love the clip of @dhh's keynote to engineer's "learned helplessness" to AWS and the cloud [2]. While SST + containers is very very different than DHH's Kamal [3], they both embrace containers without the paas service tax (heroku/vercel/etc) or the overhead of kubernetes. 1: [LINK] 2: [VIDEO] 3: [LINK]

This is amazing for the Rails ecosystem! Rails has been slowly dying, or at least it felt like that. It was like "Punk is not dead" (which it totally is)...dying slowly. Then there were some controversial decisions made about the future of Rails: no build, moving away from TypeScript, etc. These moves were controversial and risky, but seems like they paid off! And then DHH had a great keynote on the latest Rails World... [VIDEO] We're back baby!

That’s one of the beautiful things about the massive Ruby ecosystem: the answer to that question is almost always yes, regardless of your need. I’m not sure what your line of work is, but if you’re doing web dev, check this out for a great primer on the current state of things (Rails 8 + Hotwire): [VIDEO] If you’d prefer just some straight Ruby resources, Ruby Warrior is (or was, been a while since I’ve used it but it appears actively maintained still) a fun intro: [LINK]

I switched from Next.js/React to Rails for my side projects due to JS ecosystem fatigue. Anecdotally, I've noticed some people making the same move. The open-source finance app Maybe is one that pops up on a lot of searches. imo Rails has been having a bit of a revival ever since v7 introduced a cleaner approach to front end development with Hotwire (specifically, Turbo and Stimulus) to get SPA-like behavior with relatively little effort. What I love about modern Rails is that it's an evolving framework that is still anchored to a consistent vision for developer productivity. Now with 8.0 having just been released, Rails is increasing built-in support for deploying outside managed providers like AWS. I can't speak for whether it's going to see a resurgence among big companies other than famous users like Shopify, but I can't see myself using Next over Rails for any of my personal projects, even as someone who writes JavaScript and React code professionally. Relevant links: - Maybe moves to Rails: [LINK] - Rails 7.0 release announcement: [LINK] - Hotwire: [LINK] - Rails World 2024 Keynote w/ DHH, introducing Rails 8: [VIDEO] - Rails 8.0 Beta: No PaaS Required [LINK]

Is there any documentation available for ActiveRecord Search / SolidSearch yet? [VIDEO] this might allow me to drop OpenSearch. Also, how is he able to use private fields in the js example? Is he using any polyfilling?