Why Ruby on Rails still matters.
An old tool endures in a Next.js world
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Found this article to be “meh”. I don’t think the author added anything new to the conversation besides what we already know.
The title is far more interesting than the content. This is what “click bait” looks like: promising and enticing but no substance.
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But I agree RoR still matters, especially with their updates to Rails 8.
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RoR is still relevant to the community because there are still a lot of applications built with Ruby / Rails. However, if there are no new use cases, it will not be relevant to most of the comtemporarily applications.
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I’m really surprised on their work on SQLite, so that it can be in production. If I would have to guess what things would be created in future I would never think about it. 
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If a project doesn’t require extensive real-time features, Rails remains an excellent choice, especially now with tools like Hotwire Native, which makes mobile app development effortless, and Kamal, which streamlines deployment.
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Ruby and rails are still great - excellent for getting something up quickly and more than adequate for 90% of sites out there. When you need more real time features or high end scalability/fault tolerance, then I’d use phoenix 
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I wanted to learn Ruby before, but now, I think I’ll give it a shot 
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