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What are the failures Phoenix addressed from rails?

• mercer 8y ago
  Phoenix has less 'magic', for one. While it sometimes does mean there's a bit more boilerplate, I think it strikes a nice balance, and the 1.4 actually removed some magic. Another one is the ORM, Ecto. It sticks much closer to SQL and I strongly prefer it over ActiveRecord. Ecto also includes the concept of changesets, which is a wonderful way to deal with validating user data and definitely an improvement over the Rails approach. And finally, while I wouldn't necessary call it a 'failure' on Rails' part, the channels functionality in Phoenix is awesome for the more real-time apps that we have these days, and Phoenix is generally quite a bit faster in general than Rails.