I think Rails is following the footprints of the Wordpress eco-system. The once 'blogging-only' platform has now matured into a complex, component based, 'also-

I think Rails is following the footprints of the Wordpress eco-system. The once 'blogging-only' platform has now matured into a complex, component based, 'also-a-do-it-yourself-CMS' with so much code that just makes it fragile. I'd love to see anyone write something custom based out of Wordpress and not have it automatically break in the next few updates. I believe this is the same case for Rails too. One day you would update your gems only to find out that something on your site (devise? Carrierwave??) would be broken. I guess, the best approach would be to make it modular - You know, write some custom classes and inherit them when you need them, instead of depending what the framework provides you 'out-of-the-box', of course not to the point of making the framework itself redundant.