Painless Rails
complexity management system

Presuppositions

Rails framework is awesome! It help us deliver value to our clients faster, and we love it for that.
But there's a problem: the code of long-lived Rails projects becomes super-complicated. It shouldn't be like that!
It is time to learn from all the diversity of existing complexity management techniques and converge them into a unified engineeringly optimal way of doing things.
«Painless Rails» is the approach to code organization in Ruby on Rails applications, engineered to manage complexity at any scale without compromising the joy of development.

Strong foundatation - the approach is based on works of great minds like Martin Fowler, Eric Evans, Rich Hickey, Grady Booch and others
Respect Rails - the approach follows Rails convention, re-uses its tooling, and doesn't fight it in any way.
80/80 - 80% of features of 80% of Rails applications are typical. They can be coded with a single uniform optimal approach.
«Painless Rails» comes with a solid supply tool bag of fundamental principles helping to develop a custom approach in non-standard situations.

Currently «Painless Rails» is available as a book. It is a draft, but it alerady describes most of the required techniques.

The book content is going to be revamped. In doubts? Read more about the book.

Also, there will be a series of workshops to learn the approach in practice: