Discussion on: Choosing the Right Technology for SaaS Product Development: Benefits of Ruby on Rails

Did you know that dev.to/ is rails app?

But you asked a good question why rails? I'm going to skip 2020 because a few weeks from now it will be 2021. Again it really does not matter rails is already 15-16 years old and the truth is it will never be outdated the ideas around is what have formed the web.

An example

link_to "Profile", profile_path(@profile)
=> simply becomes <a href="/profiles/1">Profile</a>

A simple anchor tag will do a full reload page request, I might be old fashion but this is how web was intended to be.

The MVC pattern which I think is one of the easiest way of designing apps on top of that the 7-resourceful-actions. Registrating a new user would looks something like this

# users_controller.rb
def create
  @user = User.new(params[:user])
  if @user.save
    session[:user_id] = @user.id
    redirect_to root_url, notice: "Thank you for signing up!"
  else
    render "new"
  end
end

Those lines above is understandable even for someone that does not know anything about web development.

Rails is a web framework, as javascript developer that has been on three different jobs. It feels like I have to relearn each time how to simple things depending on choices that developers have done and so forth. One example being adding a simple validation to fields. If you ask a rails developer they know where to add that validation by heart

class Post < ApplicationRecord
   validates  :title,    presence: true
   validates  :content,  presence: true
end

Now you can simply display that error

post = Post.new()
post.save
post.errors.full_messages.each { |error| puts error }
# => ActiveRecord::RecordInvalid: Validation failed: title can't be blank
# => ActiveRecord::RecordInvalid: Validation failed: content can't be blank