[kenn]

Experienced solo Rails dev here.

I'm on Remix / Drizzle ORM / Render.com / Render Postgres / Cloudflare R2 / DaisyUI + shadcn/ui these days.

Drizzle can be a bit tricky if you're coming from ActiveRecord but once you have your own helpers with a base class that implements common method such as find_by({ key: value}) / create({ data }) / update(id, { data }) / delete(id), things get better.

Render is really good - you don't need any specific configs, just set env vars on their dashboard and git push to deploy. Simpler and better than Heroku workflow.

You can take a look at https://github.com/remix-run/blues-stack to learn how you'd manually implement cookie-based auth on this framework.

Remix is the closest thing to Rails in the JS ecosystem IMO