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I'm Back, Ruby on Rails
Last year, I wrote a blog post called Goodbye, Ruby on Rails. One year later, after creating my own business, I decided to be back to Ruby on Rails. I’m withdrawing my previous statements on DHH and Rails. Though I still have some concerns about the directions of Ruby on Rails, especially the rejection of TypeScript, I still believe that Ruby on Rails is a great framework for web development,
It would be a waste of time if you spend a lot of energy on making decisions like using which Python or node.js packages for a certain domain, like Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) or websockets. Thinking inversely, if these all-in-one Next.js frameworks could easily lead people to success, why would the author sell their code instead of directly profiting from it themselves? Because it is nearly impssoible to find a good solution to make every dependency in node_modules happy in the Docker environment, espesially when using immature ORM like Drizzle, you don’t even have an easy way to run migraitons, which has been built in Ruby on Rails for years.
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