What's a simple alternative to rails?

1    12 Jun 2018 22:41 by u/M346

I keep getting gem install errors. Once in a while I have to edit my application from 2007 and I have to go back to 1.8.7 and 1.1.6 then have to fuck around to figuring what level of rake I need. Cause half the shit is deprecated if I try the new version. So for a guy that's only going to make an application every couple years what's a simple frame work? Python Ruby Java, whatever, learning a new language is the easy part.

Also I'd rather manually adjust MySQL settings instead of trying to make db:migrate do stuff.

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You don't have to do rails, you can just do a bunch of bumps.

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I hear python and pyramid is good...check into it...

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In my experience Rails is the simplest thing ever. The price you pay is that the product you build with it is slow as hell, hard to upgrade, doesn't scale worth a damn, and is full of cruft after 100 failed ideas went into it.

But it is extremely fast and easy to build a thing with it. It's why loads of new programmers pick it up to learn with. Switching to anything else is a rabbit hole into a lifetime of bettering yourself as a developer and becoming a professional. Which is hard.