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Re:Ask HN: Would you still choose Ruby on Rails for a startu... by schappim on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @02:25PM (#42856766)
Rails (and its ecosystem) is anything but boring with Turbo/Hotwire, StimulusJS, a shift away from queues using Redis to the database w/ Solid Queue, a reexamination of how SQLite can be used as a prod database (when tuned), and a new rich text editor on the way…

Some of these are eyebrow raising and certainly not boring!

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Re:Ask HN: Would you still choose Ruby on Rails for a startu... by mahmoudimus on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @03:19PM (#42857432)
Shifting to solid queue, backed by your rdbms, is more boring than using redis. Successfully deploying an app without anything but a database server is pretty powerful. Everything just works. I would say that's pretty boring :)
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Re:Ask HN: Would you still choose Ruby on Rails for a startu... by schappim on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @03:47PM (#42857762)
> Everything just works.

I long to live in your world where this is the case!

Unfortunately the migration from Sidekiq + Redis → Solid Queue has been anything but boring.

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Re:Ask HN: Would you still choose Ruby on Rails for a startu... by mahmoudimus on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @04:55PM (#42858571)
I started fresh from Rails 8, so maybe that's why I didn't deal w/ that migration problem. I'm sorry it was stressful :(
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Re:Ask HN: Would you still choose Ruby on Rails for a startu... by moorow on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @05:10PM (#42858721)
We're about to do this as well, but from resque. Got any tips to share?
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Re:Ask HN: Would you still choose Ruby on Rails for a startu... by schappim on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @07:52PM (#42860121)
TBH we backed out of it as we didn't need to make the change now.
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Re:Ask HN: Would you still choose Ruby on Rails for a startu... by ksec on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @09:32PM (#42860826)
Would love to read about it if you have a write up of the problem you encountered.
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Re:Ask HN: Would you still choose Ruby on Rails for a startu... by jjatinggoyal on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @11:15PM (#42861437)
I think they are launching a markdown editor, not rich text
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Re:Ask HN: Would you still choose Ruby on Rails for a startu... by citrus1330 on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @10:40AM (#42866244)
He meant that it's been around for a while and is relatively stable. Not that it's literally boring.
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