[just3ws]

Rails made Microsoft change its entire web strategy. It influenced so much. Rails is so mainstream that it doesn't get talked about like a hot new tech anymore. If you were a web developer in 2006~2016 it was still hot tech but kind of lost the plot IMO when they really started futzing around with the asset pipeline.

[faitswulff]

Rewriting the entire asset pipeline like 3 times since Rails 3.x has really killed my enthusiasm for using Rails for server side rendering.

[gls2ro]

Just to put this into perspective to other people:

Rails 3 was released in 2010

Rails 7 was released in 2022

Considering the speed of change in JS and CSS in 12 years I am pretty haply with only 3 big changes.

[faitswulff]

That’s fair, I guess I’m comparing it to how stable the controller and Active Model APIs have been. I wish Rails had taken a more hands off approach and let the frontend community plug in their own approaches to tooling instead of taking opinionated stances and then rolling them back after a while. I understand that Rails is “omakase” but I had to learn the frontend tooling, anyway, and the Rails versions are different enough to invalidate that learning.

[pelasaco]

Yes, i don't like to fight against the assets pipeline, but to be honest, I just went from Sprockets to Propshaft and never tried to use Webpacker.. you can even still use Sprockets with rails 7, so you could use the whole time, plain Sprockets and you would be doing fine.