I am in the middle of reading this book and since the release of Rails 7, I started to wonder if keep reading it is going to still be useful.
A little bit of background. I've started to work with Rails last April, I have some years of experience in the field (started with WordPress templating and done a couple of years only on JS/React) but Rails is my first full-stack framework and I started to really love it. At work, I mostly work on the FE side of the application but I want to deeply learn the framework so I plan to create some side projects.
Anyway, the first thing I noticed about learning Rails is that it is really easy to learn things that are not practical anymore. Also, there is a LOT of things that, even if I know the theory, I have to grasp properly (talking about background jobs, all the convention over configurations of ActiveRecord, and so on...).
Back to the book, I am in the middle of reading the CSS chapter and the following will talk about TypeScript, webpack, and Webpacker.
Since the standard way of Rails 7 is to use importmaps and, if I have to use a bundler, my preference will go to esbuild do you think it makes sense to study those chapter too?
Probably it'll be better if I give a read at them just because there is a higher chance that projects that I'll work on will also have it? At my company, we haven't yet started a Rails 7 project and many of the applications that we maintain still use webpack so I am wondering...
Since front end frameworks like react is popular is rails just commonly used as an api or is mvc still more common?
Often when I read about Zootopia, be fanfiction or just articles on the net, the train is often referred to as a monorail, when it's in fact a regular railroad.
The railroad is clearly seen on several occasions during the train ride, and most notably just before arriving at Savanna Central or in the rainforest.
So, why the widespread misunderstanding? After all monorails are extremely rare as well as very clumsy and expensive regarding the track work.
The really wiered thing about the railroad is that it do not have electric lines (catenary). Truly odd, at least from a European point of view, which may come as a surprise to many Americans.
Also, the second train scene near the end of moive, is also on a regular track and not mono-rail.
The only one left unknown is the scene where Judy commutes home, where she get to see the bunny mother pulling in her daughter from the tiger.
