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Re:Why I believe Rails is still relevant in 2019 by jashmatthews on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @09:16AM (#19430468)
> proper http/2 support in Rails-land

Between early hints support in Rails 5.2, nginx proxying to HTTP2, and an http2 enabled CDN what's actually missing?

Re:Why I believe Rails is still relevant in 2019 by gumcreme on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @10:54AM (#19431340)
ngninx supporting http/2 != Rails supporting http/2

Depending on the use case you leave out nginx sometimes, eg. when doing microservices. Not that nginx is bad but with other stacks you very often don't need nginx and/or connect directly to the CDN reducing complexity in a stack.

Re:Why I believe Rails is still relevant in 2019 by jashmatthews on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @11:46AM (#19431916)
nginx transparently proxies using http2 to client and http1 to server. In a standard setup at any scale with a load balancer it doesn't matter that Rails doesn't support all of HTTP2. The client still gets all the benefits of header compression etc.
Re:Why I believe Rails is still relevant in 2019 by gumcreme on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @02:27PM (#19433925)
> In a standard setup

What is a standard setup in 2019, there is none? There is also no standard in using nginx as front facing entity.

In my prior comment I was friendly and gave an example why some might not have nginx in their stack and BTW the discussion is about Rails lacking http2 and you try to convince me that this is expected and right.

This is pure ignorance paired with incompetence, maybe in your small world things work this way. Let's just stop here and go back to your legacy stack.

Re:Why I believe Rails is still relevant in 2019 by jashmatthews on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @03:59PM (#19435077)
Something using AWS or GCP LBs, nginx or Apache covers 99.99% of the modern web app hosting scenarios. All support HTTP2 to the client with HTTP1.1 to the server.

This is why nobody is rushing out to rewrite Rack to support HTTP2. Ruby web apps already benefit from almost all of the advantages of HTTP2.