Ruby on Rails Lost Its Superpower

Rails gave me a career. After 13 years of writing Ruby, I’m wondering whether it still gives developers the head start it once did. I talk through what made Rails special, where Hotwire gets awkward, and why AI coding agents have me questioning how I choose a framework. 0:00 The evolution of development 0:55 The rise of Ruby on Rails 2:25 The promise of productivity 3:29 A philosophy for programmers 5:58 The tradeoff of scale 7:31 From pages to workspaces 9:44 User-centric architecture 11:06 Hotwire and compromises 12:46 The arrival of the AI agent 15:46 Redefining the bottleneck 17:38 Intellectual honesty in tools