As a trivial example, the entire first point he makes is basically no longer accurate. Rails does allow you to do joins, and eager loads of associations. It al

As a trivial example, the entire first point he makes is basically no longer accurate. Rails does allow you to do joins, and eager loads of associations. It also allows you to override the default expected foreign-key names, etc, for declared association. The only feature missing is that rails will not automatically infer associations, which I'm not sure is a "bad" thing.