No. That's what it used to be in the old days, but not anymore. I've been away from rails for a couple of years and recently came back to build a side project.

No. That's what it used to be in the old days, but not anymore. I've been away from rails for a couple of years and recently came back to build a side project. The latest rails version shoves all kinds of JS stuff down your throat, you have to literally opt out. The whole point of rails is "convention over configuration", and they have adopted the bloated NPM + Webpack ecosystem as their "convention".