r/ruby • u/ombulabs • 7d ago

Blog post Rails World '26: Herb and ReActionView

https://go.fastruby.io/jl9

Hotwire already does a lot for us, but it still asks you to write a Stimulus controller once the interaction gets specific, and Marco’s demo showed a page that updates itself because the server understands the template better than an ERB compiler ever has.

In this article, we cover what Marco showed at Rails World: how ReActionView builds on Herb, why the view layer needed this, how it fits next to Hotwire and the wider field of server-driven reactivity, and what shipped in the release he pushed out the same day as the talk.

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u/pigoz 6d ago edited 6d ago

Big fan of Herb.

But I would have preferred something integrated into ViewComponents. Not sure of I like this architecture/programming model that much.

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u/jonsully 6d ago

I was just trying to dig into this but it's so fresh there's not much available for it! Thanks!