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Re:Lotus, a web framework for Ruby by vidarh on Monday June 23, 2014 @07:45PM (#7935448)
> 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 (#7935462)
> For many of us "fixing Rails" is easiest achieved by starting from scratch.

See, e.g., the road to Rails 3 through Merb.