Upgrading GitHub from Rails 3.2 to 5.2

Re:Upgrading GitHub from Rails 3.2 to 5.2 by pbreit on Friday September 28, 2018 @06:35PM (#18097624)

There doesn't seem to be much demand for backwards compatibility from a framework. I use Web2py [1] which has remained backwards compatible for 10 years or so but I don't think has garnered much traction amongst high profile projects. It does require a bit of discretion and restraint but is doable while continuing to make progress.

1: http://www.web2py.com

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Re:Upgrading GitHub from Rails 3.2 to 5.2 by pmontra on Saturday September 29, 2018 @12:47AM (#18098764)

I had a customer with a web2py application. I liked that I could write Python in the HTML files, like Ruby in RoR views. Django castrated templating language is a pain in comparison and a productivity killer. There are some good form helpers, especially for admin applications. Maybe not that useful for public facing ones.

The defaults are quite terrible. For example the original developer put everything in the default.py file because there is nothing in the framework that suggests to create multiple controllers or models. The idea of auto generating and auto applying migrations is extremely dangerous IMHO. The ORM is pretty verbose and it pollutes the code with all those db(). On the other side, Django pollutes the code with all those Model.objects so it's not worse than that.

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