Libraries are great, but they're not a fix for a broken architecture. It's been quite a while that I haven't worked with in Ruby on Rails, but the fact that "a

Libraries are great, but they're not a fix for a broken architecture. It's been quite a while that I haven't worked with in Ruby on Rails, but the fact that "architecture" was often considered a dirty word and the "Rails way" was touted as the solution to all problems in my experience often led to systems where everything was coupled to everything. > ActiveRecord is geared towards team productivity. ActiveRecord is geared towards making things easy at the start. The problem is that every ActiveRecord object always carries a dependency to the DB around, making it difficult to enforce a clean separation between different layers of your system.