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Ruby on Rails: 5 Things we hate 5 things we love. A quick overview of some of the key concepts, limitations, and strengths of the Ruby on Rails Framework.

😍John - Convention over configuration

There is a strong "Rails way" this lets you focus on product, higher level abstractions, and move quicker through your day to day. You have less decisions to make.

🤮Convention over configuration

The "Rails way" is stupid, puts you in a box. Sometimes my needs and problems don't fit into the rails conventions.

😍Love: It's Stable and reliable.

No "shiny object" syndrome that you get in the JavaScript community.

🤮Hate: It's boring and doesn't keep up with modern trends. [jp]

I never know the right balance of "React" sprinkles inside of my .erb files. Sometimes it feels like I should just do a full blown SPA? Plus, sometimes making a form in React is so much easier for me than remembering all of the weird Rails Form shit

😍Love: It's server rendered.

🤮Hate: It's server rendered.

😍Love: It' just Ruby

🤮Hate: Forms

Why are forms so damn complicated? Maybe I just don't have a good understanding of data modeling...

😍Love: Old tutorials for things are mostly still relevant

🤮Hate: Rails devs are just "Script kiddies"

Picks

JP: 🧦 https://bombas.com/

John: Abstract — Netfilx