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Garrett Dimon :ruby:

Of all the Rails-learning I've done, going spelunking in the source code has without a doubt been the most educational in terms of leveling-up true understanding.

To have someone like @kaspth provide a guided tour sounds amazing. Highly recommend taking him up on this. lu.ma/dv5yvj4n

lu.maGuiding You through the Rails Source · Zoom · LumaWhat problem does this guided tour solve? Rails is your app's biggest dependency and you probably don't know what's going on in there. There's features you're…
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Bradley Schaefer

@garrettdimon @kaspth yeah, theres good nuggets to be found in the source. Rails features to use, but also code techniques you can wield yourself.

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Bradley Schaefer

@kaspth @garrettdimon There's also some questionable nuggets - I will call them "opportunities" 😁

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Kasper Timm Hansen

@soulcutter lol yeah, now I'm curious which ones you're thinking of?

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Bradley Schaefer

@kaspth Oh, I don't know off the top of my head. Just stuff you see when you're in there. Some places I've been lately are error reporting, logging, and middlewares.

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Kasper Timm Hansen

@soulcutter ah yeah, and there's definitely things in the codebase I wouldn't copy 😂

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Bradley Schaefer

@kaspth One thing I liked was finding IsolatedExecutionState . Nice way of dealing with "threadlocal" (or fiberlocal) data.

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