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I think Rails was able to avoid this because of its modular structure and ease to write gems that extend the framework in a way that fits your project's circumstances and needed tradeoffs. As DHH famously said Rails is omakase, but you can also make reasonable substitutions.


It partly became modular because it merged with Merb, which was an alternative modular web framework that competed with Rails for a little while.




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