Component-Based Rails Applications: Large Domains Under Control

Preface

I am excited for this book to spark a dialogue about application design. My hope is that it will spawn conversations about what is good and what is bad. Conversations about what works and what does not. Conversations about domains and their structure.

How I Came to Write This Book

It was very shortly after I started learning Ruby and Rails that I had my first professional experience with it. In 2010, I joined the development team at XING, a business social network popular in German-speaking countries. The application we worked on was a large Rails system. It had grown for a couple of years. There were internal services based on HTTP APIs. The deployment process had been refined for years. The various teams were practicing several variants ...