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Rails Is Good Enough


Rails is battle-tested, it is messy, it is beautiful, but most importantly, it gets the job done.

Aug 02, 2024 The first time I watched the infamous “build a blog in 15 mins” video, Dreamweaver was a thing, Flash was owned by Macromedia, and Twitter did not exist. Over the past two decades, many developers smarter and more experienced than I have generally agreed on the right way to do important things like authentication, and the not-so-important ones like naming conventions. One of the most underrated features of Rails is that it attracts the kind of people that are more interested in just building things than debating tech.

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