At the risk of sounding like a hater, I’ll say that this medium article was a disappointment. Maybe I was expecting too much, but in the age of a 5 second attention span if you are going to get any eyeballs you need substance and sadly the soup was there, but no meat or potatoes.

TLDR: He loves Rails because it’s fun, makes things easier and has “great documentation”.

I have a couple of rebuttals to most of his arguments but life is too short. Use what you love and enjoy what you do.

With a range of impactful updates in Rails 8, developers will be able to focus building their applications instead of dealing with infrastructure complexities.

The world of Ruby and Rails is full of magic, but their ecosystem is mature and has a huge amount of out-of-the-box functionality. Although I prefer Elixir/Phoenix, I can still see its value.