I’d love an official example of big app following the Rails way or an official guide of what goes where outs of the simples MVC. David started this via his On Writing Software Well series, but this was never part of official documentation. I see a lot of confusion around basic Rails project structu…

This is interesting! I’ve gotten similar feedback from devs I work with who are coming to Rails from React. My instinct is that the Rails community is sufficiently anarchic that people would have a hard time coming to consensus, but maybe there’s an opportunity for Rails to uplift some of the specif…

Something like this would be absolutely awesome! Seeing examples of how more experienced devs solve complex business-related problems within the ethos of the Rails Way would be great!

Rails has documentation that states that a new instance of a Controller is created for every request. What seems to be lacking in the documentation is how Rails decides to spawn other types of classes. With the rising popularity (I think?) of Rails developers utilizing POROs and implementing a Serv…

I’d love to see something like this. It could even take some common project (something like todomvc, or maybe a little bit more complex) and make it in rails following all the standard ways to show it off with the best practices (concerns, cables, storage, testing, etc) I wish Writing software well…

This! I learned more cool Rails techniques in an hour of watching DHH screencasts than probably a year of random blog posts around the web and whatever. :smile:

@jaredcwhite Those DHH screencasts were awesome, that’s how I learned about ActiveSupport::CurrentAttributes and Current.user, although that was incidental to the video. Having those tips and a general guideline on how to organize an app would solve the problem of people wondering “where they shoul…

Maybe there’s an opportunity to work with the real-world-rails maintainers here to Sherlock it?

Agree with @Betsy_Haibel that uplifting common patterns would be super helpful. I like using naming and conventions that others would intuitively recognize, but I don’t want a structure imposed that doesn’t fit my app or preferences. My code doesn’t care what folder it is in, but I obsessively need …

If we agree on common structure, and make a guide of it, maybe adding generators would be also a good idea? Nothing says officially approved like being in rails codebase.

An extensive example of project organization

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Is there any "official" way to organize one-off scripts? deserves a mention, with several helpful ways people use script/

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