Building GitHub with Ruby on Rails

Re:Building GitHub with Ruby on Rails by ativzzz on Friday April 07, 2023 @10:07AM (#35481715)

I think it's a tradeoff - rails makes live frontend updating challenging because you need to maintain a separate system to manage that, especially when you have a large app. JS frameworks have this built in, but their backend is lacking compared to rails IMO

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Building GitHub with Ruby on Rails by doodlesdev on Friday April 07, 2023 @04:22PM (#35486503)

GitHub could've used Hotwire [0] but instead they decided to grow a buggy immature in-house solution.

[0]: https://hotwired.dev/

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Building GitHub with Ruby on Rails by mscccc on Friday April 07, 2023 @06:44PM (#35488032)

Even with my kindest interpretation, I cannot find how this comment adds anything to the conversation. It’s also incorrect. Hotwire was released after GitHub’s internal UI framework (which is quite impressive!) was created.

Attributing some UI bugs with their choice of framework is a massive oversimplification of the problem.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Building GitHub with Ruby on Rails by 0xblinq on Monday April 10, 2023 @01:48AM (#35509528)

> Hotwire was released after GitHub’s internal UI framework

Any source for this?

My understanding is that it was extracted for building Hey from the use cases the 37signals people had on other products such as basecamp, etc.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Building GitHub with Ruby on Rails by mscccc on Monday April 10, 2023 @10:19PM (#35519944)

Yes that’s correct.

I was saying it came after, meaning GitHub could not have used it since it didn’t exist. :)

[ Parent | on HN ]