A Vanilla Rails Stack Is Plenty

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by jmarchello • 2 years ago

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jmarchello2• 2 years ago

Rails has so much to offer these days, going vanilla really is a viable (and enjoyable) option. Here at Swivel we use the ENTIRE rails stack from Hotwire to Kamal and it is so simple and easy to maintain and deploy. I do think there are use cases where adding a React frontend is good though. But you don't have to, Rails has everything you need so you can focus on creating value for customers instead of plumbing.

thelastgallon• 2 years ago

What are some good resources to get started on Rails for a complete newbie?

jmarchello2• 2 years ago

They actually just released a new, rubust getting started guide that is an EXCELLENT place to start learning the framework: https://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html. I highly recommend starting there.

chris12321• 2 years ago

The new getting started guide is great. Chris Oliver is a great teacher. Afterwards, if you want a 102-style tutorial, I'm a big fan of https://www.hotrails.dev/. It goes step by step and explains how Hotwire works and how to use it.

A Vanilla Rails Stack Is Plenty

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