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What kind of meetup

the purist kind

ah, well then: “heroku is still the best hosting option for 98% of web applications”

Don't know how meet-ups are these days but I'll open with… The apps that Rails has traditionally excelled at building are no longer viable SaaS businesses to start

Having an `app/services` dir is a smell Real OG’s use ActiveJob for their sERvIcE oBjECt needs RSpec is better Heroku still champ

Sequel should’ve been Rails’ default ORM. It supported multi-DB + sharding/replicas ages before AR did, has a mature SQL expression builder, immutable relations, advanced Postgres features, dynamic eager loading and joins, model-less query interface, simpler API, better performance… 😃

Should've been then or should be now? Big difference.

Should’ve been then, before Active Record 3 came out. Shouldn’t be now anymore, because of familiarity and having caught up with many features. I’m mostly missing ergonomic Arel API now. I’m motivated to contribute, but received zero reactions so far - discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/proposal-f...

Uh, so limiting myself to a technical opinion only… 😏 The Rails "frontend" story is basically terrible. Probably best just to tear out the entire thing and start over from scratch. 😄

Rails is a great framework for building UIs for relational databases. It’s a great fit for many kinds of apps, but not a great one for many others.

mine is too spicy even for bluesky