Having done both for years, I can say confidently that you can use Phoenix without recreating Rails. The differences are important, and IMO Ecto is a much bette

Having done both for years, I can say confidently that you can use Phoenix without recreating Rails. The differences are important, and IMO Ecto is a much better approach to interacting with a database than ActiveRecord. I've also never seen a bug in my application due to upgrading Ecto, and I definitely can't say that about ActiveRecord.