I’ve been using Rails for tape.it to power cloud syncing for an app. Upsides: hilariously easy deployment and development story. Migrations and secrets managem

I’ve been using Rails for tape.it to power cloud syncing for an app. Upsides: hilariously easy deployment and development story. Migrations and secrets management is trivial. Everything works. No long searches for third party dependencies. Downsides: speed (as in compared to a Java backend, for example), and activerecord has a learning curve on performance. Did some bad design decisions on two endpoints that my iOS client depends on and those design decisions hurt badly. They would’ve hurt in any language but hit me much much sooner with Rails.