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How complicated is rails in 2021?

• herbst 6y ago
  More, but not a lot (comparingly)
• izietto 6y ago
  I'd say less than 10 years ago, because many not-so-edge cases have been fixed, and the new sections of the framework (activestorage, active job) simplified the development of some features that were harder to integrate some time ago
• speleding 6y ago
  A new Rails 6 project will by default install web packer, to mention just one thing that is likely to trip up beginners. On the rails of yesteryear you would just drop a JS file in a folder and it would "just work".
• thrwn_frthr_awy 6y ago
  Some things are more complicated, and some things are less. RESTful resources which seem so core to Rails were not part of Rails until 2.1 I believe. Also Bundler and the Asset Pipleline while having some growing pains really did solve significant problems of early Rails apps in production. Personally I still prefer the old school ujs patterns over the new JavaScript but I’ll still a request/response proponent so I may in the minority there.