alt Hacker NewsWhat makes Rails stand out is the focus on convention-over-configuration as a guiding principle in the ecosystem which results in a lot less code (have you seen these relatively thin models and controllers?), as well as established dependencies and the lack of tendency to bikeshed in libraries (geocoder or devise for example have been mostly stable over close to a decade, with few popping up to replace it)
> What makes Rails stand out is the focus on convention-over-configuration as a guiding principle in the ecosystem which results in a lot less code
Convention over configuration and less code is fine, but unfortunately Rails is not a great example of it IMO. The "rails" are not strong enough; it's just too loosey goosey and it doesn't give you much confidence that you're doing it "the right way". The docs don't help much either, partly because of the history of breaking changes over releases. And the Ruby language also doesn't help because of the prolific globals/overrides and implicitness which makes for "magic".
So you're encouraged/forced to write exhausting tests for the same (normally dumb CRUD) code patterns over and over and over again. Effectively testing the framework moreso than your own "business logic", because most of the time there barely is any extra logic to test.
So I'm also surprised it gained the reputation is has.