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I don't know where you got that from. Struts was my first proper web framework- the kind where adding a column was an all-day affair.

The simplicity of Rails, even now, is that you'd only need to put it in two places- the migration and the view. You don't need to mess around with Hibernate XML configurations all day. Just add the damned column and get on with your life.

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Struts was hardly the be-all end-all of web development. Sure, Rails was a lot better than Struts--but so were a lot of other platforms.