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Youtube transcript summary through Claude 4.5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvPXFnX60cg

Architecting Rails Applications: Lessons from 37signals and Fizzy

How vanilla Rails, domain-driven design, and strategic simplicity power modern Rails apps

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When 37signals launched Fizzy (their take on a Kanban tool) last week and open-sourced the entire codebase, they gave the Rails community a rare gift: a working example of how they architect production applications. Jorge Manrubia from 37signals recently walked through their approach in a detailed video, revealing patterns that challenge common wisdom about service objects, concerns, and Rails architecture.

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# http://docs.rubygems.org/read/chapter/11
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gem: --no-ri --no-rdoc
benchmark: false
verbose: true
update_sources: true
sources: 
- http://gems.rubyforge.org/
- http://rubygems.org/
backtrace: true

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Troubleshooting RabbitMQ installation on OSX via homebrew

brew update
brew install rabbitmq

To see if rabbitmq is running after following the installation instructions:

launchctl list | grep rabbit
> 48303	-	homebrew.mxcl.rabbitmq

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import { Controller } from "@hotwired/stimulus"

export default class extends Controller {
  static targets = [ "slide" ]

  initialize() {
    this.index = 1
  }

  next(e) {

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Installation

1)

brew install nginx
sudo cp /usr/local/Cellar/nginx/1.8.0/homebrew.mxcl.nginx.plist /Library/LaunchDaemons

2)

Replace /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf with the nginx.conf in this gist. I'm using port 8888 for my current project. Obviously, change server_name as well, and probably the name of its access log.

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/* **She grows old and feeble** */
 
    //...But she would always have to return back to her dull world of chores and grown-ups.
    return function() {
      // And her latest story would be filled with wonder
      latestStory = adventures[adventures.length - 1];

      // But time is a bitch...
      setInterval(function() {
        // and our dear princess can't help but forget her adventures,

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Rendering Deferred Views Outside of Rails Controllers

Typically, Rails views are rendered after some controller action is executed. But the code that powers Rails controllers are flexible and extensible enough to create custom rendering objects that can reuse views and helpers, but live outside of web request processing. In this post, I'll cover what a Rails controller is and what it's composed of. I'll also go over how to extend it to create your own customer renderers, and show an example of how you can render views in your background jobs and push the results to your frontend.

What's a Controller?

A Rails controller is a subclass of ActionController::Base. The documentation says:

Action Controllers are the core of a web request in Rails. They are made up of one or more actions that are executed on request and then either render a template or redirect to another action. An action is defined as a public method on the controller, wh

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require 'rack'

class RackApp
  def self.call(env)
    [200, {'Content-Type' => 'text/html'}, ['derp']]
  end
end

# For a full list of options, see
# http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib-1.9.3/libdoc/webrick/rdoc/WEBrick.html

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# 1) Running a raw RackAdapter in config.ru mounted at '/' works fine
require 'bundler/setup'
require 'yard'

run YARD::Server::RackAdapter.new(
  {'surfiki' => [YARD::Server::LibraryVersion.new('surfiki', nil, File.expand_path('../.yardoc', __FILE__))]},
  {
    :single_library => true,
    :caching        => false
  })

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# Clean up Mint exported transactions for working with a spreadsheet
#
# Usage:
#
# ruby mint.rb <transactions.csv>
#
# Export a CSV of transactions from Mint
#
# Tags are not exported, so it must be filtered out before export:
#