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by jmagoon 3801 days ago
We are in the same boat. I find myself relying way more on pure ruby classes.

It's also dangerous because Rails fits a specific niche, like he mentions--building (potentially) many web systems quickly. We chose to migrate large legacy systems to rails, which meant lots of the nice convention just. doesn't. work. Day 1, you're already digging in to figure out how to get around the magic!