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by Syntaf 1057 days ago
This is especially true when you're working with popular frameworks that been around for awhile, e.g. rails or even django at this point.

Most accepted answers I come across for questions I have with rails are a mix of:

* Use this niche gem I created, which btw has no license and hasn't been updated in 5 years

* Use this approach which depends on rails internals from 4+ major versions ago

* Use this rails helper which has been long-deprecated and removed in modern rails

At this point I just use Phind [1] -- it's quite good at niche rails questions and I can specify that I want "Rails 7.0 or Edge" answers only so it won't give me an answer from 2011 or 2013.

[1]: https://www.phind.com/