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How come I don't see anyone recommending ruby and ruby on rails? I am curious as I am going this route.

by osler 3y ago

whalesalad 3y ago
rails is not a bad choice. you might outgrow it, but once you hit that threshold your scale will be quite substantial and the correct/next path forward will become clear.
- bdcravens 3y ago
  In the context of a single freelancer, scale tends to refer to the number of developers, and the size of the client's budget, moreso than the number of requests. I would anticipate that the thresholds you have in mind will probably never be hit by these types of clients.
a_wild_dandan 3y ago
Because Hacker News is a horrendous place to gauge technologies.
- fourside 3y ago
  Seriously, some of the responses make me think that they weren’t written by freelancers.
  - rchaud 3y ago
    Many of the responses appear to entirely ignore the operative word ('freelancer') and are just descriptions of their personal webdev stack, where the only user is them.
16mb 3y ago
As much as I love ruby and the rails structure, and while I continue to write projects with rails, I no longer really recommend it to peers. The TS/JS ecosystem is just much larger and that comes with newer libraries, tools and has better support. Getting setup with a basic CRUD rails app is quick, but the more advanced work; auth, deployments, scale, etc. can be frustrating for newcomers. Not a fan of how they’re going all in on Hotwire. Although I haven’t been following those advancements much lately. They really need to have some easy way to just roll their api only mode with a stand alone frontend, along with documentation on configuring that. You just can’t beat the proficiency of using the same types on front and backend. I did enjoy trying out redwoodjs.
bdcravens 3y ago
I did. It's just not the cool kid anymore, and given that discussion is focused on freelancing, there are other options that may be better for padding your billable hours :-)

How come I don't see anyone recommending ruby and ruby on rails? I am curious as I am going this route.

by osler 3y ago

How come I don't see anyone recommending ruby and ruby on rails? I am curious as I am going this route.

rails is not a bad choice. you might outgrow it, but once you hit that threshold your scale will be quite substantial and the correct/next path forward will become clear.

bdcravens 3y ago
In the context of a single freelancer, scale tends to refer to the number of developers, and the size of the client's budget, moreso than the number of requests. I would anticipate that the thresholds you have in mind will probably never be hit by these types of clients.

a_wild_dandan 3y ago

Because Hacker News is a horrendous place to gauge technologies.

fourside 3y ago
Seriously, some of the responses make me think that they weren’t written by freelancers.
- rchaud 3y ago
  Many of the responses appear to entirely ignore the operative word ('freelancer') and are just descriptions of their personal webdev stack, where the only user is them.

16mb 3y ago

As much as I love ruby and the rails structure, and while I continue to write projects with rails, I no longer really recommend it to peers. The TS/JS ecosystem is just much larger and that comes with newer libraries, tools and has better support. Getting setup with a basic CRUD rails app is quick, but the more advanced work; auth, deployments, scale, etc. can be frustrating for newcomers. Not a fan of how they’re going all in on Hotwire. Although I haven’t been following those advancements much lately. They really need to have some easy way to just roll their api only mode with a stand alone frontend, along with documentation on configuring that. You just can’t beat the proficiency of using the same types on front and backend. I did enjoy trying out redwoodjs.

bdcravens 3y ago

I did. It's just not the cool kid anymore, and given that discussion is focused on freelancing, there are other options that may be better for padding your billable hours :-)