I've seen this post and similar ones many times. ORMs don't fit all scenarios, but most of the time it's a question of when you fall back to something more flex

I've seen this post and similar ones many times. ORMs don't fit all scenarios, but most of the time it's a question of when you fall back to something more flexible/powerful. In Rails, writing the crud part of your app with SQL is pointless. Trying to get AR to do dashboard gymnastics is equally pointless. Pick the best tool for the job.