[mmartinson]

I feel like figuring out where a method is coming from to be a routine source of tedium and a massive gumption trap when working on Ruby projects. This, along with bugs rooted in hidden state mutations, far overshadows the time saving conveniences in Ruby and Rails for me.

[amorphid]

When I have creative freedom, I use Rails for routing, serving requests, and talking to the DB. I try to not to lean too heavily on Rails for business logic stuff.