Form_this Alternatives

form_this reviews and mentions

• My Love Letter to Rails (and Ruby) – Or, Why RoR Isn't Dead Yet
  6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Oct 2023

  And it's really neat you can do that in Ruby, but it can also make a codebase kind of tricky to debug – it's the old "you need to be twice as clever to debug code than to write it". While I generally found Rails to be pretty good, it does have bugs and quirks.

  On the flipside with Go you spend a bit more time writing your own code, but that code will be better suited to what you're doing. Sometimes people seem to be afraid to write code, but I found it's not a bad thing and "do it yourself" can be quicker and better than "adapt existing thing to your needs".

  On balance, it seems to more or less cancel out. Maybe there's some difference one way or the other, but it doesn't seem to be huge.

  [1]: https://github.com/bluerail/form_this

• Basecamp Blew Up
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 May 2021

  Yeah, I agree the MVC model in Rails is too simplistic. I never liked how everything is stuffed in models; back in Rails 3 (or 2?) it was even worse. I actually wrote a library to solve part of this, which inserted a "form" layer between the controllers and models. It worked quite well.[1]

  Actually, Ruby on Rails in general is often "Rails + these 20 gems that everyone uses". I remember someone likening getting started with practical real-world Rails development as starting in Game of Thrones in the middle of season 5, which sounds about right to me.

  [1]: https://github.com/bluerail/form_this