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Rage in the Wild

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The Rage Team
The Rage Team

Wrote an article exploring real-world patterns from popular Ruby open-source codebases and showing how they could be modelled using Rage.

The article looks at three projects - Discourse, Mastodon, and GitLab - and a pattern from each:

  • Request fan-out (Discourse): Sequential HTTP requests become concurrent with Fiber.schedule and Fiber.await
  • Streaming (Mastodon): A separate ~1400-line Node.js streaming server becomes a single controller action with Rage::SSE
  • Domain events (GitLab): A custom event system with a separate subscription registry becomes inline subscriber declarations with Rage::Events

The common thread: what would normally require extra complexity, infrastructure, or indirection becomes a few lines of application code when the framework handles the machinery.

Applying some Rage to Discourse, Mastodon, and GitLab