> ActiveRecord makes the easy things easy and the difficult things impossible unless you just give up and write SQL, which you could have just done in the first

> ActiveRecord makes the easy things easy and the difficult things impossible unless you just give up and write SQL, which you could have just done in the first place and wouldn't have actually been that much harder. Most queries in a typical web application are much easier with ActiveRecord, others with plain sql. A decent rails developer would know to use the right tool for the right situation. Throwing out all of ActiveRecord is throwing out the baby with the bathwater, in my opninion.