Rails World 2024 Opening Keynote - David Heinemeier Hansson
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN commenters point to it as a primer on modern Rails and as a rebuttal to cloud 'learned helplessness', worth watching even by non-Ruby developers.
What it is
DHH's opening keynote at Rails World 2024 in Toronto, where Rails 8 beta shipped. It covers built-in authentication, Propshaft, Solid Cache, Solid Queue, Solid Cable, Kamal 2 and Thruster, pitching the One Person Framework that needs no PaaS.
Recommended by 6 HN commenters across 3 different months, 2024 to 2025.
What Hacker News said
Strong rec faizshah · 2024-10 · on “What's New in Ruby on Rails 8”
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: [this 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.
Strong rec GreenWatermelon · 2024-10 · on “Running an open source app: Usage, costs and community donations”
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] [this video]
Recommends fileeditview · 2024-10 · on “I got everything off the cloud and am paying less”
> 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: [this video] He addresses exactly this phenomeno
Recommends tomhallett · 2024-11 · on “SST: Container Support”
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: [this video] 3: [LINK]
Recommends Mystery-Machine · 2024-12 · on “1Password joins the Rails Foundation: Strengthening the community, developers”
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... [this video] We're back baby!
Recommends trevorhinesley · 2024-12 · on “Lightstorm: Minimalistic Ruby Compiler”
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): [this 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]
Cites zhalz · 2024-09 · on “Ask HN: Is Ruby/RoR Dead?”
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
Cites Alifatisk · 2024-10 · on “What's New in Ruby on Rails 8”
Is there any documentation available for ActiveRecord Search / SolidSearch yet? [this 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?