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Rails World 2024 Opening Keynote - David Heinemeier Hansson

Ruby on Rails · 155.1K views · 2024-09-27 · 1:05:46

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Overview

DHH's opening keynote at Rails World 2024 in Toronto, where Rails 8 beta shipped. It covers built-in authentication, Propshaft, Solid Cache, Solid Queue, Solid Cable, Kamal 2 and Thruster, pitching the One Person Framework that needs no PaaS.

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HN commenters point to it as a primer on modern Rails and as a rebuttal to cloud 'learned helplessness', worth watching even by non-Ruby developers.

Recommended by 6 HN people across 3 months · HN mentions 2024–2025

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faizshah · 2024-10 · Strong recommendation

I highly recommend you watch the first half hour of DHH Rails World talk on Rails 8 even if you aren’t a Ruby dev: [VIDEO] The idea of Rails 8 is to move away from trend following and try to reject some of the ideas that have become popular in the industry (like being afraid to touch a Linux server or implementing your own auth). Really though provoking stuff.

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GreenWatermelon · 2024-10 · Strong recommendation

Far too late for the edit window, but the keynote[1] is an absolute must-watch for anyone who does anything related to web development [1] [VIDEO]

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Mystery-Machine · 2024-12 · Recommendation

This is amazing for the Rails ecosystem! Rails has been slowly dying, or at least it felt like that. It was like "Punk is not dead" (which it totally is)...dying slowly. Then there were some controversial decisions made about the future of Rails: no build, moving away from TypeScript, etc. These moves were controversial and risky, but seems like they paid off! And then DHH had a great keynote on the latest Rails World... [VIDEO] We're back baby!

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