Build Rails Apps with Components

If you’ve ever worked on a Rails app, you’ve probably run into problems with the view layer turning into a mess as the app gets older or the team gets bigger. Rails attempts to tame this problem with solutions like strict locals, but I’ve found them to be cumbersome and view them as a worse implementation of Ruby method definitions. Fortunately component libraries like Phlex and ViewComponent use Ruby method definitions to create a more sane boundary between application code and views, but using them as controller views hasn’t been straightforward and requires a lot of boilerplate. .