[captain_crabs]

Ruby on Rails has entered the 'boring' phase of the hype cycle, because it's 1) widely used 2) extremely reliable 3) lacking controversy. Have you used ActiveStorage or ActionCable lately? They're brand new, probably not relevant to HN at large, and awesome!

[heartbreak]

Adding to this, I have this blog post bookmarked from an HN post a few months ago:

http://www.codethinked.com/it-takes-all-kinds

It was made in response to a popular post claiming that Rails is “yesterday’s software”.

[wolco]

The php community understands what you are going through. We made it through you guys will too.

[sergiotapia]

ActionCable chokes at scale though - you’re better off using Phoenix Channels which can scale vertically for very little money and for a long long time.

Heroku free tier + hobby dev pg + Phoenix channels = 27000 concurrent users before Postgres starts complaining