dirkjonker-tag Welcome to my page where I ramble along with my opinions on building software...
I want to splurge some words about Rails templates. A freshly generated Rails project comes with ERB-based templates for its views. This is totally fine. I've been using them for years now, and I can build nice things with it, I dare say. Rails has some good conventions and as long as you stick to the naming conventions of views, you'll have a good time. The files are mostly just HTML with some…
In 2022 I started building an application for creating Customs declarations. After evaluating some options and writing code in various programming languages and frameworks such as .NET/F#, Go, Rust, React, I eventually decided to write it in Ruby on Rails. Why? Because I was already familiar with Rails and because of that I could literally go 10x faster than I was with any of the aforementioned…