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Re:Why Ruby on Rails still matters by philip1209 on Friday February 21, 2025 @04:29PM (#43133257)
I've noticed that, in agent workflows like Cursor, they're able to use built-in type checkers to correct errors.

With Ruby, it doesn't have as much information, so it has to rely on testing or linters for feedback.

Re:Why Ruby on Rails still matters by dceddia on Friday February 21, 2025 @04:34PM (#43133311)
I haven't seen it run into a ton of issues like this when it can see all of the files, but I did hit issues where it would make guesses about how e.g. the Stripe gem's API worked and they'd be wrong.

Overall with Rails though, testing has always been pretty important partly because of the lack of types. I have noticed Windsurf is pretty good at taking a controller or model and writing tests for it though!