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Going to have to watch this later today. I've messed with so many frameworks in the past - Laravel, ExpressJS, MeteorJS, Django, Flask, etc. All of them have th

Going to have to watch this later today. I've messed with so many frameworks in the past - Laravel, ExpressJS, MeteorJS, Django, Flask, etc. All of them have their benefits and drawbacks and I've been at different knowledge levels when I've tried them all but I've always tried tutorials, done my own thing and given up. Three days ago I started using rails and I just flew through the weekend to get a MVP setup to show a coworker. Rails just made it easy to focus on what my app needs to do, not how my app needs to be implemented. I can finally see why people love it so much.

SkyPuncher 3y ago
I've been a Rails dev for a long time. I've tried a bunch of things and keep coming back to it for the same reasons as you. I'm incredibly productive in it. For the longest time, my primary complaint has been a lack of documentation/conflicting information when you break from convention. It can be extremely challenging to find/understand the "blessed" way of doing things. Thankfully, ChatGPT is extremely good at providing a starting point for this stuff.
- theonething 3y ago
  Could you give an example of how ChatGPT helped you specifically with Rails?
  - SkyPuncher 3y ago
    The one that I use it the most for is writing ActiveMigrations while integrating with some of Postgres features. There's a lot of settings that get pass-thru to the DB, but aren't clearly documented. I know it's possible, I just can't remember the syntax. Same thing with some of the more advanced Model relationships. I just don't write _that_ many relationships, so I tend to forget how Rails wants certain things defined. Since a lot of things rely on config, rather than "normal" runtime code, it can be frustrating to debug. ChatGPT just gets me to the right answer. --- It's also pretty useful at gut checking DB design. There's been a few times where it's suggested a different approach than what I expected and I've preferred it's suggestions.
    - theonething 3y ago
      Wow, thanks. I gotta start checking out how to leverage ChatGPT more.

SkyPuncher 3y ago

I've been a Rails dev for a long time. I've tried a bunch of things and keep coming back to it for the same reasons as you. I'm incredibly productive in it. For the longest time, my primary complaint has been a lack of documentation/conflicting information when you break from convention. It can be extremely challenging to find/understand the "blessed" way of doing things. Thankfully, ChatGPT is extremely good at providing a starting point for this stuff.

theonething 3y ago
Could you give an example of how ChatGPT helped you specifically with Rails?
- SkyPuncher 3y ago
  The one that I use it the most for is writing ActiveMigrations while integrating with some of Postgres features. There's a lot of settings that get pass-thru to the DB, but aren't clearly documented. I know it's possible, I just can't remember the syntax. Same thing with some of the more advanced Model relationships. I just don't write _that_ many relationships, so I tend to forget how Rails wants certain things defined. Since a lot of things rely on config, rather than "normal" runtime code, it can be frustrating to debug. ChatGPT just gets me to the right answer. --- It's also pretty useful at gut checking DB design. There's been a few times where it's suggested a different approach than what I expected and I've preferred it's suggestions.
  - theonething 3y ago
    Wow, thanks. I gotta start checking out how to leverage ChatGPT more.