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Discussion on: My Ruby on Rails stack for side projects in 2021

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Andy Maleh

Thanks for sharing. Many things are spot on, such as advising people to avoid over-engineering with interactors and decorators. It drives me crazy to see that on actual projects I join from time to time.

In any case, forget Hotwire! I'm planning to change all of that by keeping people strictly in Rubyland. Check out Glimmer DSL for Opal, a Pure Ruby Web GUI library for Rails (still an early alpha, but very ambitious and experimental at the moment.)

Rails is certainly better than the competition, but is still nowhere near 100% productivity even if it seems that way. It has a lot of room for improvement and cutting down on code. Since I work for myself mostly nowadays, I've made that problem my pet project. The joy of open-source software!

Godspeed.