[cultofmetatron]

the "but there's always an escape hatch if you want/need it." is the critical difference. phoenix is super modular. In rails, you're really locked into a certain way of doing things. I've never felt like I've been corralled into a specific way of doing things that couldn't easily be changed with an hour of work at most.

[dymk]

I'm curious - what in Rails is like that? I've been doing RoR for a long time, and while "Rails is Omakase", I've never felt it was hard to swap out a component.