This post was inspired by this post on why the author thinks "Ruby is still great" and this tweet stating that Shopify (and others) are successful because of Rails, not despite it.
Now, let me first give a little background. I've been a Rails programmer since late 2006. Before Rails I went through PHP, ASP and ASP.NET (like most people at the time).
Back pre-2010, Rails was a force-multiplier, and to some degree still is. It provided a completely new way to do web development, including code generation and all the necessary tooling out of the box. The deployment story was sad until Heroku came on the scene, but we suffered through it because Rails solved a real problem.
After over 10 years of dealing with Rails' problems, I'm not so enthusiastic anymore. I believe it is impossible to write a high quality application in Rails. By high quality I mean it satis
