> Ruby is clever, it can be beautiful, but I've never seen a good codebase using it grow well without enforcing strictly opinionated ways of writing it to ensur

> Ruby is clever, it can be beautiful, but I've never seen a good codebase using it grow well without enforcing strictly opinionated ways of writing it to ensure maintainability. Which breaks a lot of the expectations of some Ruby developers that chose the language because they like to write it in their own way. Yeah, this is one of the major disadvantages of Ruby. Every Ruby shop of any size has its own idioms and internal code style, which means a lot of unnecessary overhead when onboarding new people. Even experienced devs need to take some time to feel out their team's norms. The expressiveness also lends itself to bike shedding - I've seen many a PR comment questioning why a dev chose method A versus method B, where method B is an alias of method A. Probably an hour of staff time spent on something that has zero impact on functionality, maintainability, or performance.