The History of Rails in 10 Blog Posts

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Ten blog posts name concrete shifts not just ideas: Fat Model, Skinny Controller argues put business logic in models; FactoryBot provides inline test factories and becomes standard; the 12-factor manifesto prescribes env vars and explicit deps and reshapes deployment; service objects proliferate as an extraction pattern and later get critiqued for losing OO power; Hotwire vs React debates turn into pragmatic rules about shared state versus visual complexity.

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1. 0:00Rails time travel tour
2. 3:59Fat Model Skinny Controller
3. 7:54Waiting for Factory Girl
4. 11:02Beyond Active Record
5. 14:09Rails defaults vs JS frameworks
6. 16:15The wrong abstraction
7. 18:23The Twelve-Factor App
8. 21:34Tuning threads for performance
9. 22:39Monoliths first
10. 24:26Service objects wear
11. 25:52Hotwire vs front-end frameworks
12. 27:35Summary

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