Codefol.io

I was talking with some folks lately about how Rails is amazing and unmatched for prototyping web apps. If you’re dealing with high market risk, you want to build a lot of prototypes, fast, at low quality, with the assumption that 90%+ of them will be thrown away because nobody will buy them. That...

architecture technique

Breaking down a giant monolithic Rails app (colloquially a “monorail”) is a very hot topic right now. I’ll give you the boring, accepted advice first: extract obvious bits by breaking apart obvious sub-apps, take nontrivial logic and extract it into /lib and/or external gems, take repetitive models...

architecture