I'm learning Ruby on Rails. Would you recommend it as a good website framework? Or something else? I've already tried Laravel, CakePHP, Vue/Vite, and making my own from scratch .

[–] undefined@links.hackliberty.org 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I do! I am self-taught but now have a great career going in it. My only complaint is that once you start requiring very specific gems, you’ll find a bunch of unmaintained stuff. Ruby was hyped up a lot in the beginning, kind of declined during the Node.js fad but is becoming a lot more stable and continues to show a ton of progress.

These days if you want to get your foot in the door you can find work upgrading Rails versions as a lot of companies seemed to have released apps a long time ago then lost track of time.

Realizing most of this sounds pretty negative but it’s a beautiful language that I love working in every day. The language is so flexible/usable that outsiders complain that it can encourage bad habits simply by being so maleable — my recommendation is to really know the difference between plain Ruby and Ruby on Rails.

[–] Kojichan@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Thanks so much for your insight!

I'm a self-taught programmer as well. Started with the basics way back when like Atari basic, GWbasic, built into Forth of all things, then C++/C#, PHP, JavaScript, etc., then into frameworks like Node, React, Vite , Laravel, CakePHP and stuff.

I followed the Ruby online tutorial. It seems a lot like Zoho's Deluge, but I heard it isn't as optimized as Rust, so thank you for talking about Rails :) I'm excited to see what I can build!

Also thanks for the warning about outdated Gems.

[–] undefined@links.hackliberty.org 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I get the optimization issue for sure. Crystal is a language that exists but it just hasn’t gained enough popularity; it’s a compiled language that’s very close to Ruby syntax.

[–] Kojichan@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Then I think I should learn Crystal. ;) I'll gladly program in a language with the same name as myself. Hahah.

Thanks again!