Complaining about coffeescript...There is absolutely no reason anybody needs to use coffeescript in a Rails project. Rails works perfectly well without it. Now,

Complaining about coffeescript...There is absolutely no reason anybody needs to use coffeescript in a Rails project. Rails works perfectly well without it. Now, some people prefer the syntax and find the extra layer of transpiling to be worth it. But if you don't, just use vanilla Javascript! Rails certainly has some things to complain about, but coffeescript ain't one of them.