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I recently switched back to Rails after 7 or so years seeking (part-time) a better option, and wow....Rails and Ruby are still beautiful and my productivity has

I recently switched back to Rails after 7 or so years seeking (part-time) a better option, and wow....Rails and Ruby are still beautiful and my productivity has spiked tremendously. I'm finding https://hotwired.dev/ https://hotwired.dev/ to be awesome, and was able to develop an interactive data grid in less than an hour. If you haven't tried Rails lately because it's no longer cool, I encourage you to look again. I've tried many different frameworks, including Flask, but nothing touches Rails (IMHO) in terms of productivity.

schlch 5y ago
This is exactly my experience. During the last years I mostly wrote ts, python and some golang. About a year ago a friend asked if I'd like to join his startup. I was skeptical at first because his personal philosophy includes avoiding js as much as possible and (almost) exclusivity relying on the rails way of doing things. The rails community seems like a cult to me at times. One year later and I'm not exactly in love with ruby the language but I seriously love the productivity that comes with using rails. It is the most complete framework I have used and from my observation it seems to raise in popularity again.
zakki 5y ago
Do you have a good resource for learning Rails? I have never learned it.
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- hokumguru 5y ago
  I found this youtube channel to be quite nice: https://www.youtube.com/c/CJAvilla https://www.youtube.com/c/CJAvilla
- hifix 5y ago
  As a complete beginner to the Rails world (but not web dev in general), the official Getting Started guide at https://edgeguides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html https://edgeguides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html was a short and sweet way for me to get an introduction to how it works. After that I went through a number of Chris Oliver's GoRails tutorials (https://gorails.com https://gorails.com) which I found really helpful too.
- theonething 5y ago
  I have taken taken several courses from Pragmatic Studio and found them to be very good including the Rails course. https://pragmaticstudio.com/courses/rails https://pragmaticstudio.com/courses/rails

schlch 5y ago

This is exactly my experience. During the last years I mostly wrote ts, python and some golang. About a year ago a friend asked if I'd like to join his startup. I was skeptical at first because his personal philosophy includes avoiding js as much as possible and (almost) exclusivity relying on the rails way of doing things. The rails community seems like a cult to me at times. One year later and I'm not exactly in love with ruby the language but I seriously love the productivity that comes with using rails. It is the most complete framework I have used and from my observation it seems to raise in popularity again.

zakki 5y ago

Do you have a good resource for learning Rails? I have never learned it.

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hokumguru 5y ago
I found this youtube channel to be quite nice: https://www.youtube.com/c/CJAvilla https://www.youtube.com/c/CJAvilla
hifix 5y ago
As a complete beginner to the Rails world (but not web dev in general), the official Getting Started guide at https://edgeguides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html https://edgeguides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html was a short and sweet way for me to get an introduction to how it works. After that I went through a number of Chris Oliver's GoRails tutorials (https://gorails.com https://gorails.com) which I found really helpful too.
theonething 5y ago
I have taken taken several courses from Pragmatic Studio and found them to be very good including the Rails course. https://pragmaticstudio.com/courses/rails https://pragmaticstudio.com/courses/rails