Re:Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]
by alehlopeh on Thursday September 24, 2026 @09:30PM
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Sorry, but what’s “install a plugin” in rails? That’s not a thing; not even a thing someone who’s ever worked on a rails app would say by mistake.
Re:Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]
by jaggederest on Thursday September 24, 2026 @10:47PM
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How certain are you about that? https://guides.rubyonrails.org/v2.3/plugins.html
Back in the very early days you would have used script/plugin install (svn url)
Here's one of my mirror repositories migrated from SVN into git. https://github.com/jaggederest/acts_as_voteable
As time has gone on Rails has gotten better about this, but it still means that "your rails" and "my rails" are different enough that AI could easily get confused.
As you say, the other aspect is the intense dynamism which works against AI, which again prefers to have everything explicit and reasonable about from the text.
So I ended up going back to Javascript after a brief 12 year digression into Ruby. I still love Ruby but it's just not the right language for the current environment and team structures - typescript is "worse is better" in the right ways that it's a much better choice for both frontend/backend being the same and better type systems.