"Taming your Rails monolith"

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Rails scales if you stop following the default Rails way and incrementally modularize: add service, value, query and form objects to make classes skinny and testable, build components as extract as gems or Rails engines inside the monolith, then optionally move them to services; migrate DB table names to include component namespaces to ease extraction and use an anti‑corruption layer/data‑mapper for boundaries. Practical steps: get solid test coverage, refactor high‑churn areas first, and mirror domain structure in folders — examples include GitHub and Mastodon at >300k LOC.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 0:32Overview
3. 0:59About me
4. 1:31What Im presenting
5. 1:47What is a monolith
6. 2:11What is a massive code base
7. 2:30When is a monolith a good thing
8. 4:18The downsides of a monolith
9. 6:10Congratulations
10. 6:42Majestic
11. 7:06Components
12. 7:58Extract Microservices
13. 8:30What can we do today
14. 8:59Introducing components
15. 9:29Practical steps
16. 9:41Refactoring
17. 11:45Skinny Everything
18. 12:58View
19. 14:00Simplify
20. 14:33Services
21. 15:00Value Objects
22. 15:30Query Objects
23. 15:53Form Objects
24. 16:13Adapters
25. 16:51Controllers
26. 17:18Organization
27. 17:47Stronger Pattern
28. 18:06Stop adding new components
29. 18:44Separating backend from frontend
30. 19:30Identifying components
31. 20:05Structure for the future
32. 20:35Identifying seams
33. 21:29Feedback
34. 22:03Extracting
35. 22:18Logical progression
36. 23:02Next steps
37. 23:54Summary
38. 24:17Resources
39. 24:36Componentbased Rails Application
40. 25:05Examples
41. 25:49YouTube
42. 26:20Thank you
43. 26:37Questions
44. 27:49Micro Services
45. 28:46Interactors
46. 30:01Domain logic
47. 30:21Policies
48. 30:51Naming Scheme
49. 31:17Classes
50. 31:53Other approaches
51. 33:10Domain events

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