Web Applications with Ruby (not Rails)
summary
Shows how to implement an MVC web app in plain Ruby atop Rack interface using a small router, controllers, Haml views, Rack::Utils for params and optional ActiveRecord/Sequel or raw pg for persistence; the live‑coding builds a working app with layouts, render context and routing, and measures about 700 req/s (≈1 ms/request) versus roughly 2x slower with Rails, proving a framework‑free prototype is compact but omits logging, caching, sessions and security.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Start
- 1:12invented MVC
- 4:26Mid Programmer Life Crisis
- 4:57Building websites with Rails is not ENOUGH programming
- 5:50Most of us don't know what's going on outside of Rails
- 6:26Web applications with Ruby (not Rails)
- 26:03Sequel
- 27:57Write your own framework!
- 28:313 Rails Core Team
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