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Why I Still Use Ruby on Rails

When Rails first came around in 2004, web development was in a very different state than it was today. JavaScript was still pretty much restricted to the browser, since Node.js wouldn’t come around until 2010, Java was being written without frameworks like Spring Boot to make it somewhat bearable, and the LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) was in vogue, due to PHP being widely supported and easy to deploy

A lot of time has passed since the early days of Rails, however. Why would anyone use Rails, or even dive back into learning it after all this time…

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https://medium.com/@shaffanm/why-i-still-use-ruby-on-rails-7581464b86be

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alvinkatojr

alvinkatojr

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.

jaeyson

jaeyson

Ahh version 8. It’s always at the backburner. Maybe a time to start learning.

DevotionGeo

DevotionGeo

I like both Rails and Phoenix, and sometimes it’s really hard to decide which one to use when starting a new project.

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