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Why Ruby on Rails still matters

Why Ruby on Rails still matters.
An old tool endures in a Next.js world

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AstonJ

AstonJ

Ruby and rails are still great - excellent for getting something up quickly and more than adequate for 90% of sites out there. When you need more real time features or high end scalability/fault tolerance, then I’d use phoenix :023:

  • ruby is my favourite OOP language :blush:
  • elixir (/Erlang) is my favourite functional language :blush:
andrea

andrea

I wanted to learn Ruby before, but now, I think I’ll give it a shot :slight_smile:

adamaiken89

adamaiken89

RoR is still relevant to the community because there are still a lot of applications built with Ruby / Rails. However, if there are no new use cases, it will not be relevant to most of the comtemporarily applications.

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