Whenever you've covered your bases, Rails grows in complexity. Probably necessary complexity to keep up with modern world.
Solved asset pipeline pain? Here's we packer. No, let's swap that out for jsbundle.
Finally tamed the timing of releasing that db migration without downtime? Here's sidekiq, requiring you to synchronize restarts of several servers. Oh, wait, we now ship activejob.
Managed to work around threads eaten by websocket connections in unicorn? Nah, puma is default now. Oh, and here's ActionCable you may need to fix all your server magic.
Rails is opinionated. And that is good at times. But it also means a lot of work on annoying plumbing having to be rebuilt for a new, or shifted opinion. Work on plumbing, that is not work on your actual business core.
> Finally tamed the timing of releasing that db migration without downtime? Here's sidekiq, requiring you to synchronize restarts of several servers
To be fair, this was already an issue whenever you have more than one instance of anything. Whether it's an extra sidekiq or two web servers or anything else, you have a choice of: stop everything and migrate, or split the migration into prepare, update code, finalise migration.
But async workers have the tendency to be busy on long running processes, whereas a web server typically has connections that last at most seconds. Their different profile makes restarting just a tad harder.
Whenever you've covered your bases, Rails grows in complexity. Probably necessary complexity to keep up with modern world.
Solved asset pipeline pain? Here's we packer. No, let's swap that out for jsbundle.
Finally tamed the timing of releasing that db migration without downtime? Here's sidekiq, requiring you to synchronize restarts of several servers. Oh, wait, we now ship activejob.
Managed to work around threads eaten by websocket connections in unicorn? Nah, puma is default now. Oh, and here's ActionCable you may need to fix all your server magic.
Rails is opinionated. And that is good at times. But it also means a lot of work on annoying plumbing having to be rebuilt for a new, or shifted opinion. Work on plumbing, that is not work on your actual business core.