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Right now I'd say we need to make it easier to work with nested params so you can easily save Parent + (n) children. Easier handling of uploaded files is another big one. It's bein…

Hello! I'm the creator of the Lucky web framework https://luckyframework.org . I've been building it for about 3 years and we've got a number of people using it in production. It s…

author of Lucky here. Would love to hear what you don't like about Lucky's ORM (Avram). It is not quite as feature complete as ActiveRecord, but in some ways it has more features (…

Totally agree. If this happened post 1.0 I’d be concerned. But pre 1.0 this is what I’d expect and want. Polish things up because afterward you can’t!

This looks awesome! What backend framework are you using? I'm the author Lucky and was wondering if you happened to use it on the backend since you are using Crystal

I'm Paul, the creator of Lucky. If you have any questions or feedback let me know. Always happy to help. If you want to chat about Lucky feel free to hop on https://gitter.im/lucky…

Author of Lucky here. The title may have been a bit misleading. Lucky is not Ruby on Rails for Crystal. It has a different take on nearly everything in Rails, but it aims to solve …

I agree. I've been using Rails for 12 years and it is my second favorite framework :) Lucky and Crystal are missing the ecosystem, which the article mentions, but it also adds a lo…

I do not think Lucky is Ruby on Rails for Crystal. There are new patterns for just about everything. Routing is different, querying is different, views are very different. It is Ra…

I'm glad you were pleasantly surprised. Feel free to hop on https://gitter.im/luckyframework/Lobby if you have any questions or comments!

You can use Lucky without a database, but if you use one, Postgres is the only support database. You don't need node or yarn if you are using API mode. You can generate an API only…

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I've played around with a number of languages and settled on Crystal because: * Speed * Pleasant to use type system * Doesn't get in my way * Catches lots of bugs * Fun! I wrote ht…

Hey HN! I'm Paul Smith, the creator of Lucky. I created Lucky because I wanted a framework that was fast, fun, productive, and caught lots of bugs that I would normally miss. I'm h…

Hi HN, Lucky is a web framework written in Crystal that helps you build web apps quickly, catches bugs for you, and runs incredibly fast. This article explains how actions and rout…

Can you explain a bit more what you mean? What advantages do "Python variety" lists give you over what Elixir does with lists and tuples?

This totally makes sense. I think the disadvantage is that this is done at runtime, but assuming you have a test that hits it, it would catch the bug. My colleagues wrote a library…

And for a Ruby/Elixir/dynamic lang programmer just catching `nil` is actually a pretty big win, even without the custom type. I will go more into depth about leveraging the type sy…