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  • Recommended by 2 people: 2 on Hacker News.
  • A classic. People kept recommending it from 2018 to 2023.
  • Presented by David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Ruby on Rails
  • May be out of date. The tools, versions or practices it shows have likely moved on.

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David Heinemeier Hansson demonstrates how to build a blog engine in fifteen minutes using Ruby on Rails scaffolding.

David Heinemeier Hansson, the creator of the Ruby on Rails web development framework demonstrates how to create a blog engine in 15 minutes.

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What people say. Recommended as the legendary demonstration of rapid web development that launched the popularity of Ruby on Rails.

grblovrflowerrron Hacker News • Recommends

On “Show HN: Alan – a low-code application platform”

I think a good example to follow for your project is the original Rails announcement video by DHH: link to this video Maybe you can do a similar app in way less time!
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girishsoon Hacker News • Recommends

Ruby on Rails demo by DHH back in 2005/6. I was blown away that he created a blog application with comments in 15 minutes, I was working on Asp.NET back then and it would have taken me about a week to do that. link to this video
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u/capnemo-1734in r/functionalprogramming • Mentions

On Not Drinking the FP Kool-Aid FP proponents are missing the point in most of the articles they write about more advanced topics, usually about computational wrappers like functors, applicatives and monads. They usually start from the basics and build up the complexity gradually. Nothing wrong with that. The problem is they rarely (ahem, almost never) write the follow up post which shows how they applied these advanced topics in real world programs in ways that were superior to the non-FP alternatives every developer already thinks to do. Their examples are contrived and fail to offer a compelling "why bother?" They fail to show, pragmatically, how their approach is superior when comp…
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juleson Hacker News • Mentions

On “Rails Has Turned into Java”

…be to Rails as Rails was to Java EE exists yet though. The competition has merely caught up, perhaps a little ahead on some fronts and a little behind on others. But there is nothing that is clearly much much better. Things like Meteor and Opa are a step in the right direction, but they don't go far enough (yet). Does anybody remember this video: link to this video This is not the original Rails video, it's the second one I think, but they're fairly similar (couldn't find the original). Back then when I saw the first Rails video I remember finding it amazing. Now it's just boring.…
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chadkruseon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Meteor 1.1 Released – Now Supporting Microsoft Windows and MongoDB 3.0”

Here's a reasonably recent list of production Meteor apps: link IMHO, one of the often overlooked use cases for Meteor is rapid-prototyping. If anyone remembers DHH's video 10 years ago demonstrating Rails' scaffolding 0, Meteor is the 2015 version. 0 link to this video
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mavelikaraon Hacker News • Mentions

On “DHH answers: What makes Rails a framework worth learning in 2017?”

> There are a lot of vocal people who make it seem like you should be doing everything in Go or Angular or what have you It might be hard to believe now, but Rails also went through this stage of vocal supporters advocating for it over alternatives. If you go back and watch the introduction video 1, you have DHH creating a blog in 15 minutes using RoR. I remember being impressed by it and vocally pushing for it where I worked then. :) 1: link to this video
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grappleron Hacker News • Mentions

On “Lenovo now shipping Ubuntu on high end workstations in the US”

…ese containers need to run on a linux kernel, so the setup winds up as containers on a VM on the host OS. If your dev machine is linux, you can remove the VM layer in between and the setup is simpler and more efficient. I think that might push a lot of developers from mac to linux. I just got a new dev machine recently and it's a linux laptop. 1 link to this video…
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eduon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Show HN: Imba – I have spent 7 years creating a programming language for the web”

Wow, congrats. It looks great, need to try it. The video gave me the same feeling I had when I watched the original rails demo video 1. 1. link to this video
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BoumTACon Hacker News • Mentions

On “I completely ignored the front end development scene for 6 months. It was fine”

…ars we came from create a full application to not even know how to do a todolist. (Imagine form validation, it must be so hard !!!). Everybody seems happy and very productive. It must be myself. In 15 years we came from 15 minutes to create a blog with this old tech to a few days of work. That's a lot of progress we don't have to reload the page ! link to this video…
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dmitriidon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Remix: On Rails”

The original "How to build a blog in 15 minutes with Rails" from 2005: link to this video I've yet to see a single video like that from any of the new remixes/redwoods/nexts/nuxts/<god there are so many of them> And one that doesn't require 270 KB of Javascript to display a static page like Remix's landing page.
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sergiomatteion Hacker News • Mentions

On “DOS on Dope (2010)”

Love the little details: the text in the forms is exactly what DHH used in 2005 when famously introducing Rails at a conference. link to this video
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avg_devon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Rails Cheat Sheet”

i find this critique interesting, because i believe the initial momentum behind rails was sparked by a video about how to create a blog using rails without any setup in just a few minutes. link to this video
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dmixon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Smol Developer”

code2prompt.py has some interesting implications for "forking" github projects into the base of your own side project. Once this stuff matures it will be fascinating to see how the 2030 version of 2010 Rails scaffolding looks. What will the DHH "make a blog in 15min" video look like? (Edit: which apparently is 17yrs old now, aka 2006) link to this video
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sphon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Dynamic Forms with LiveView Streams”

The Live View demo or the Rails one? :-) Rails, it was this one 17 years ago: link to this video Live View, I'm not sure which is the first demo. There's "Build a real-time Twitter clone in 15 minutes with LiveView and Phoenix 1.5" ( link )
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Lioon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Ruby 3.5 Feature: Namespace on read”

20 minutes? Who’s got time for that? The original DHH demo video1, from 19 years ago, was a blog in 15 minutes. AI is clearly rubbish! :P 1. link to this video
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