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Why we ditched Rails

Avatar for Jerry Jäppinen Jerry Jäppinen
September 21, 2012
Programming
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Why we ditched Rails

Presentation about Deveo's development challenges in Frozen Rails 2012.

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Jerry Jäppinen

September 21, 2012

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Transcript

  1. Why we ditched Rails 6 lessons we learned the hard

    way

  2. Jerry Jäppinen GUI Designer @jerryjappinen [email protected]

  3. Apps & APIs Collaboration Repo hosting

  4. Views shouldn’t be tied to domain objects Rails is logical,

    UIs are not 1.

  5. View’s lifetime is just beginning on page load Preprocessed views

    won’t cut it 2.

  6. HTML, CSS, JS & JSON Technology stack gets out of

    hand 3.

  7. Seriously WTF, look at your smartphone Page refreshes *_* 4.

  8. JavaScript can’t be escaped or superceded No options for writing

    modern UIs 5.

  9. Ruby != JavaScript Rails is Ruby 6.

  10. No Rails :( For now. =

  11. www.deveo.com @deveoteam

  12. None
  13. None