Ruby on Rails

FIRST-HAND READS

What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.

• “It was a good way for me to learn some of the Ruby on Rails Hotwire tools.”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-06-23

• “When I worked with Ruby on Rails I was "addicted" to macros for everything”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-15

• “booting the dev server (rails server) would take minutes on a hello world”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-06-01

• “And using Rails either. Well, you can write web-applications without rails too. And that works extremely well. That also was the first thing I did when I switched from PHP to ruby back then. And I still don't need or use rails either.”

  NEGATIVE · Hacker News · 2026-05-27

• “takes the already terse Ruby on Rails code to the next extreme”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-05-27

• “I'm not a fan of dynamic typing at all (currently maintaining a decade's old e-comm monolith written in Ruby on Rails)”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-04-22

• “It is nice to see more people building outside Ruby on Rails, that create a health environment”

  MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2026-04-09

• “it's a Ruby on Rails system so the moment you start doing funky stuff with separate tables or views, whilst it is doable, you lose a lot of the benefits of Active Record and end up having to do a lot more manual lifting”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-03-27

• “Ruby on Rails + Heroku combo was probably the easiest in this regard, abstracting away most of the stuff I hate to deal with (infra, DB, deployment, etc.)”

  MIXED · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-01-26

• “coding in Rails which is heavily convention over configuration so there is usually only 1 right way to do things”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Reddit · 2025-05-19

• “Ruby on Rails backend, because it's what we knew at founding and we wanted to move fast”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2025-04-02

• “touching so much surface area of the Rails internals. It helped me successfully make it through one of the most complex data migrations I've ever had to do, and all without breaking backwards compatibility.”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2024-08-16