Why We’re Sticking with Ruby on Rails at GitLab

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on /r/rails

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  • Buffalo

    Discontinued Rapid Web Development w/ Go

  • Buffalo (https://gobuffalo.io) was the closest when I was doing golang. Not as stable or as capable as rails imho.

  • sorbet-typed

    A central repository for sharing type definitions for Ruby gems

  • The tooling around "installing" types for third party dependencies (the equivalent of doing "npm install @types/something" is non existent. I had to manually copy over files from https://github.com/sorbet/sorbet-typed, which is so far behind pythons and typescript, where you can just "pip install"/"npm install" the types. Not only that, most third party dependencies don't provide types, so the "coverage" is super incomplete. I had to try and create some third party types myself, bit even that was a challenge because it's so hard to be sure of the entirety of what's going on in a ruby codebase because the language is dynamic.

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • rspec-sorbet

    A small gem consisting of helpers for using Sorbet & RSpec together.

  • Play

    The Community Maintained High Velocity Web Framework For Java and Scala.

  • Grails

    The Grails Web Application Framework

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NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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