Best Practices

Ultimately, the best metric might be "cost per feature" over a relevant time interval, balancing immediate needs against future costs—akin to managing technical debt.

Rails developers often juggle between rapid development cycles and maintaining clean, manageable code.

Despite Rails' simplifications, complex problems needing elegant solutions will always exist. This is where design patterns come into play.

The more you ground your code in reality, the more you will be able to identify requirements that are delusional and ultimately just undefined problems.

Rails and it's opinionated nature, guides developers towards design patterns. However, there's significant room for design decisions that impact maintainability and scalability.

Meticulously managing dependencies between objects is the safeguard adaptability and maintainability.

Rails is inherently object-oriented, providing a structured environment where modular design thrives.

Performance issues often stem from tasks ill-suited for real-time processing during normal web operations.

Keep your HTML clean; any intensive Ruby code in views is likely misplaced. Inline Ruby in views often scales into maintenance nightmares.