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Transcript
Lotus For Rails Developers @jodosha / #lotusrb
Indie OSS dev & Freelancer
Why Lotus?
Lotus Philosophy
Lightweight
Features • Thread-safety • Full featured HTTP router • RESTful
resources • Actions and views as objects • Actions callbacks • Code sharing • Exception handling • Sessions • Secure Cookies • HTTP Caching • Automatic MIME Types • 20+ Template engines • Partials and layouts • Presenters • Routing helpers • Form helpers • HTML helpers • Automatic markup escape • CSRF and XSS prevention • Force SSL • Entities • Repositories • Data Mapper • SQL and Memory adapters • Dirty Tracking • Reusable validations • Mailers • Multiple environments • Static assets • JSON body parser • Params whitelisting and validation • Code generators • Rack servers support • Application console • Database console • Powerful CLI • Migrations • RSpec, Minitest and Capybara support • Several architectures • And more..
0 17,5 35 52,5 70 Ruby Rack Sinatra Lotus Rails
Dependencies Memory
On average, we use only a fraction of the features
that a gem provides.
Lotus depends on a few gems. You can be sure
that all the loaded code is useful for your application.
Lotus Foo Bar Baz Runtime dependency Transitive dependency
For each gem that we require, we’re adding overhead to
Ruby and Bundler.
There is no faster code than no code at all.
Less convenient
Example: Constant Autoloading • Differences across environments • ActiveSupport’s dependencies.rb
is ~800LOCs • lotus-controller gem is ~800LOCs • It took years to become stable • It modifies how Ruby VM loads code and features • It requires to “monkey-patch” Ruby Core
Solution: Eager loading • Same behaviour across environments • It’s
just 26LOCs • It isn’t a perfect solution • “Easy fix” via require
No monkey-patching
Don’t monkey-patch classes that you don’t own.
Testability
All the application components can be unit tested.
No need to maintain lotus-rspec or lotus- minitest gems.
A complete framework
Lotus goes beyond “Flat-MVC” by providing a set of collaborators
for “Full-MVC”.
Lotus toolkit
Full stack web apps
None
None
Lotus has a “Modular First” approach that helps you to
scale your code.
The Monolith is good for the first 5 years, but
then a framework should make your life easy.
None
Example #1
None
This is the name of the application under apps/
None
Web::Controllers::Home::Index For the app named Web we have Web::Action
None
None
None
For the app named Web we have Web::View Web::Controllers::Home::Index Web::Views::Home::Index
All the “exposures” and view’s public methods are available to
the template.
None
Exposure from the action
None
Example #2
One big ERb block
In order to avoid coupling with any ORM, it just
accepts symbols.
We have the routes factory to not overload the view
context with too many methods.
No need to concat these two div blocks.
Params validation is optional
This is the same name that we have set to
form_for.
Separation between entities and repositories.
No coupling with the routing system and the ORM
None
None
None
None
Useful resources
http://lotusrb.org Guides and API docs
http://lotusrb.org/mailing-list Subscribe to the mailing list at:
http://lucaguidi.com
http://lotusrb.org/hackday
Q&A
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