Where is Ruby Headed in 2021?

Re:Where is Ruby Headed in 2021? by mehphp on Thursday November 18, 2021 @10:31PM (#29273497)

I just left a rails gig to go back to django. I like ruby ok but not a big fan of rails.

I totally see the value and understand why someone would like it but I just never could get to that point with it.

I much prefer the explicit imports, loops, etc I suppose

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Re:Where is Ruby Headed in 2021? by chespinoza on Friday November 19, 2021 @08:28AM (#29276904)

That's interesting, what you think Django excels that Rails doesn't? Which ones were the pain points in your opinion?

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Re:Where is Ruby Headed in 2021? by mehphp on Friday November 19, 2021 @10:53AM (#29278421)

I think it’s just preference really. I don’t think Django is better I just prefer some of it’s choices.

For example, I really don’t like that rails implicitly imports stuff into the namespace.

I like being able to follow the imports explicitly at the top of the file. I feel like there is way less of “where does this come from or what IS this?” when working with Django.

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Re:Where is Ruby Headed in 2021? by t-writescode on Friday November 19, 2021 @09:02PM (#29284960)

Autoloading is a major source of pain in Ruby, I think.

What function did I import, exactly? Which of the 37 “update” calls did I call when I called it on this?

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