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The Unofficial 37signals/DHH Rails Style Guide

About This Document

This style guide was generated by Claude Code through deep analysis of the Fizzy codebase - 37signals' open-source project management tool.

Why Fizzy matters: While 37signals has long advocated for "vanilla Rails" and opinionated software design, their production codebases (Basecamp, HEY, etc.) have historically been closed source. Fizzy changes that. For the first time, developers can study a real 37signals/DHH-style Rails application - not just blog posts and conference talks, but actual production code with all its patterns, trade-offs, and deliberate omissions.

Anti-hype LLM reading list

Goals: Add links that are reasonable and good explanations of how stuff works. No hype and no vendor content if possible. Practical first-hand accounts of models in prod eagerly sought.

Foundational Concepts

Pre-Transformer Models

How to add ChatGPT streaming to your Ruby on Rails 7 app!

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Released under the MIT License - use as you wish :)

The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing

(by @andrestaltz)

This tutorial as a series of videos

If you prefer to watch video tutorials with live-coding, then check out this series I recorded with the same contents as in this article: Egghead.io - Introduction to Reactive Programming.

Data Down / Actions Up
- http://emberjs.jsbin.com/nayaho/edit?html,js - Interdependent select boxes. No observers.
- http://ember-twiddle.com/2d7246875098d0dbb4a4 - One Way Input
Plain JSBin's
- http://rwjblue.jsbin.com/pixeki/edit?html,js,output
Ember Version Base JSBin's
- 1.0 - http://emberjs.jsbin.com/juluje/edit?html,js,output
1.1 - http://emberjs.jsbin.com/cofufo/edit?html,js,output

Deploy your own PaaS!

Setting up Dokku with DigitalOcean and Namecheap

..or how I made my own heroku in a few hours for $3.98.

This write-up is several years out of date! You probably shouldn't use it.

In Rails 3

NOTE: This post now lives (and kept up to date) on my blog: http://hakunin.com/rails3-load-paths

If you add a dir directly under app/

Do nothing. All files in this dir are eager loaded in production and lazy loaded in development by default.

If you add a dir under app/something/

Your Class:

class YourClass < ActiveRecord::Base
  attr_accessor :some_date
  columns_hash["some_date"] = ActiveRecord::ConnectionAdapters::Column.new("some_date", nil, "date")
end

Your View:

<%= form_for :your_class do |f| %>

	http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22667401/postgres-json-data-type-rails-query
	http://stackoverflow.com/questions/40702813/query-on-postgres-json-array-field-in-rails

	#payload: [{"kind"=>"person"}]
	Segment.where("payload @> ?", [{kind: "person"}].to_json)

	#data: {"interest"=>["music", "movies", "programming"]}
	Segment.where("data @> ?", {"interest": ["music", "movies", "programming"]}.to_json)
	Segment.where("data #>> '{interest, 1}' = 'movies' ")
	Segment.where("jsonb_array_length(data->'interest') > 1")

	# logfilename [owner:group] mode count size when flags [/pid_file] [sig_num]
	/Users/your-username/path-your-rails-project/log/.log your-username:staff 644 4 $D0 GJ

	# NOTES
	#
	# Place file in /etc/newsyslog.d
	# '$D0' under 'when' tells newsyslog to rotate logs daily at midnight.
	# Alternatively you could use '24' for 'when', which would specify "every 24 hours"
	# '*' under 'size' specifies that logs should be rotated regardless of their size.
	# 'G' under 'flags' tells newsyslog that the 'logfilename' is a pattern and it should rotate all log files matching the pattern.