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Do you eschew RoR and use an alternative Ruby web development approach? (Example: different framework, or writing your own framework)
I first started writing my APIs using Sinatra about 10 years ago. I had started with Rails when it first came out around 2005, liked it, but then ran up against a lot of issues. Sinatra and the Sequel gem were amazing so I switched to that, since I didn’t need most of what Rails had.
Now I just use those two out of habit. Rails is a LOT better now, but i still just reach for Sinatra and Sequel usually.
What problem are you trying to solve by asking these questions? What context is this question for? Are you curious how many people use a non-rails solutions for enterprise apps? Cloud apps? Personal projects? Apps you want users to pay for? A blog?
I'd suggest stating what problem you'd like to solve by asking this question so you can receive more detailed feedback. For example, if your company is spinning up a new app and you're evaluating choices, someone may respond that they used sinatra but found themselves reinventing rails so they wish they would have used rails. I'd say this is more insightful than "yea, we use sinatra". Alternatively, maybe someone used sinatra for a personal project and found the experience of reinventing rails rewarding and educational on their own time. Let us help you!
We have a lot of internal APIs written using Sinatra. I first started writing my APIs using Sinatra about 10 years ago. I had started with Rails when it first came out around 2005, liked it, but then ran up against a lot of issues. Sinatra and the Sequel gem were amazing so I switched to that, since I didn’t need most of what Rails had. Now I just use those two out of habit. Rails is a LOT better now, but i still jus…
It does seem to be much more the exception than the rule. But it may be getting more common with kubernetes deployments which make lots of individual services a bit easier to manage.
What do you mean by "heavyweight"? Also why is it a problem that something is "heavyweight"? What problem are you trying to solve by asking these questions? What context is this question for? Are you curious how many people use a non-rails solutions for enterprise apps? Cloud apps? Personal projects? Apps you want users to pay for? A blog? I'd suggest stating what problem you'd like to solve by asking this question s…
Rails latest release (7.0.4) have 386,970 lines of code in total, 310,779 of it being Ruby code. 3000 files in total. Just the `lib` directory of `activerecord` has 33,036 lines of code, across 369 files.
By most metrics, RoR is pretty heavyweight, as their literal taglines are "Ruby on Rails scales from HELLO WORLD to IPO" and "A web-app framework that includes everything needed to create database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern", so it needs to be pretty big to support those use cases.
Full `cloc` report in case someone is curious:
4268 text files.
3839 unique files.
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