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From what I know about using both it seems like MANY of the benefits were missed. With ORMs you don't really need to worry about database connections or specifying stuff like that. You can also make functions that execute pure SQL in ActiveRecord which I've done before and is in Michael Hartl's Ruby on Rails tutorial. You can also switch between different SQL implementations without worrying about having to refactor stuff, as its usually just an initial configuration/migration. I am not entirely sure but this is from medium so I usually take anything tech related on medium with a grain of salt. If you don't have your tables set-up right you're going to have to do a bunch of weird table joins and stuff, but you can also look into fixing ur databases. DATA STRUCTURES AND TABLE ORGANIZATIONS ARE KING.