ViewComponents in the Real World
summary
Claims concrete wins: adoption of ViewComponent built on Rails 6.1, migration at GitHub that quadruples component usage, and unit tests that are ~100x faster than controller tests. Describes tools and infra: a custom ERB compiler turned Rails flag, static-analysis toolchain (parser gem, rubocop), Storybook previews, matrix CI for multi‑Ruby/Rails coverage. Gives numbers—hundreds to thousands of views, dozens of services, measurable perf savings (100 ms saved) and rollout practices.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Start
- 4:02Architecture
- 4:37Controller - System
- 5:55Seeds vs. test setup
- 9:57Downsides
- 11:15Standards
- 15:22Complexity
- 19:48Storybook
- 21:04Refactoring
- 22:45Performance
- 23:02Organizational
- 28:45Empathy
- 29:52Test coverage
- 33:04Relevance
- 33:50Extractors
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