Why Ruby on Rails still matters

I found vinyl records from my late grandfather recently. It struck me how this media from the previous millennium played without issues. Vinyl represented a key shift in music distribution - it made printing and sharing sounds accessible, establishing a standard that persists. While audio sharing methods evolved, the original approaches remain functional. In our increasingly complex world, many people return to vinyl because it offers simplicity, stability, and longevity . Amidst the constant changes of web technologies, it's easy to forget that old websites continue to work just fine, too. A plaintext website from the 1990s loads in modern browsers just as it did then. Websites gained additional capabilities over time - CSS for styling, JavaScript for interactivity, and websockets for real-time updates. Yet their foundation remains based on pages, forms, and sessions. Ruby on Rails emerged twenty years ago as a unified approach to building interactive, database-powered web applicat ... Read full article.