[evolve2k]

I’ll bite. Rails is not dead yet and will get you very far. There’s still good resources around and so many things you’ll want to do are already solved in logical ways.

The GoRails team offers some great current videos on Ruby and Rails and their jumpstart starter app (for a few hundred bucks) will move you forward insanely fast. I’ve no connection to them just a big fan coming back to Rails recently. https://jumpstartrails.com/

Hotwire and friends now mean you don’t miss out on adding 80% of js dynamic tricks. Setup a jumpstart project and you’ll actually build a great app much faster.

[knowmad]

Don't get me wrong RoR is great and it is definitely the fastest way to get a project out the door and in front of your users. I've just seen what happens when that project takes off and you end up with a massive monolith that you're paying through the nose to support with the biggest RDS DB available, and every change you make has a 50/50 chance of introducing a bug somewhere else in the system. Then, because of those issues, you decide to split up the monolith into microservice, but you have a bunch of RoR engineers that have been working with monoliths their entire careers so you end up with a distributed monolith that's even harder to change and requires coordinated deploys.

I recognize that there are definitely ways to scale RoR well (GitHub, Shopify), but the framework is designed to get you up and running as quickly as possible so trade-offs were made in areas that

[knowmad]

Edit: Trade offs were made in areas that make it fast to build simple apps, but don't lend themselves well to apps at scale. "Rails Magic" in a simple app becomes "Rails Witchcraft“(arcane and dangerous) in a complex app