[vinceguidry]

> Not the subsequent years of maintenance.

You're gonna have to pry the Rails from my cold dead fingers if you want me to maintain a web app's database abstraction layer long-term. No other tool works half as well as ActiveRecord. You could maybe convince me to try out https://rom-rb.org/ but only on a brand new project and only if Rails isn't appropriate.

If it's a project that wasn't built with Rails, I'm going to want https://github.com/jeremyevans/sequel if ActiveRecord is too much trouble to introduce.

[oogway8020]

I have been lucky to be able to pick what I want to use, so I pick non-rails stack (Sinatra/Padrino and now Roda + Sequel). No other tool works as half as Sequel. You're gonna have to pry Sequel from my cold dead fingers.

[vinceguidry]

Don't get me wrong, I love Sequel. But ActiveRecord is far more polished. And that starts to matter once you start needing to go 'off-script'.