Hacker News commenters debate the merits of Ruby on Rails in 2026, with many praising its conventions and stability while criticizing lack of typing and AI-oriented marketing.
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also on Phoenix One year of Ruby on Rails configuration A senior Rails developer shares the accumulated configuration, monkeypatches, and custom types in a one-year-old production app, covering booleans, time zones, UUIDv7, I18n, Turbo streams, and View Components.
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Returning to Rails in 2026