[ljm]

After many years of working on a variety of Rails projects, I've pretty much come to the same conclusion and, if you look at it another way, it's the same conclusion no matter what you work with.

Rails is incredibly effective for solving the problems that existed at the time it was conceived. CRUD websites, rapid prototypes, things that aren't incredibly complex. Not an exhaustive list, but that's what I reach out to Rails for now.

Once you get past that certain point, not only does the framework fail to offer a convention for the problem you might face, but it also requires a mature team of developers to guide things forward from that point on, and really think about how to build something that Rails itself has no decent answer for. That solution might be to break out of Rails, or switch to raw SQL queries, or to proxy to services that can handle the task better. It's almost never a good idea to double down on the convention at that point.