Theres a bit of politics that get in the way of "fixing rails". Mainly, many things that others consider anti patterns, DHH and other maintainers are fine with.
> It is better to focus on rails and fixing rails
For many of us "fixing Rails" is easiest achieved by starting from scratch.
> and still offering much smaller set of functionality.
... and that is why I prefer Sinatra to Rails.
Re:Lotus, a web framework for Ruby
by dragonwriter on Monday June 23, 2014 @07:49PM
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> For many of us "fixing Rails" is easiest achieved by starting from scratch.
See, e.g., the road to Rails 3 through Merb.
Few doge years ago sinatra was faster than rails, today... not so obvious and still offering much smaller set of functionality.