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Ok I'll bite - what else have you tried and what made rails so more productive? My experience with big web frameworks - though I can't speak to rails in partic
by LAC-Tech 5y ago
Ok I'll bite - what else have you tried and what made rails so more productive?
My experience with big web frameworks - though I can't speak to rails in particular - is that everything is sunshine and rainbows until I veer a little bit off the standard path (or rail) and then it all becomes a nightmare. Where as if I'd done a little bit more myself up front, the thing is more resilient and can easily go where I want it.
Really happy to be wrong here, would love it if rails became my secret weapon. I'm a big ruby fan. But I'm sceptical.
- breckenedge 5y agoRails has a ton of escape hatches when you want to make a different choice from the defaults, just as long as you’re writing a web app or HTTP API. The challenges I’ve run into in the Rails ecosystem more revolve around 3rd-party extensions making assumptions about how my app works and not being as flexible as the framework.
- TheRealDunkirk 5y agoI've done web apps with PHP, ASP.NET, .NET Core, and, unfortunately, Java/Angular. The only thing that really hangs up .NET for web apps these days is its reliance on Entity Framework. What I've finally concluded is that I'm glad to tradeoff speed and strong typing of .NET/EF for the flexibility and "omakase" of Rails/AR. Obviously, YMMV.