Rails 5 is a bloat too far for my liking as well. ActionCable's dependency on redis is too fat a pill to swallow, especially given that some of the existing ActiveRecord backends have pub/sub capabilities.
The result is that I'm learning Elixir/Phoenix and having the same reaction Dave Thomas describes in his new book, that is, finding anew the joy of programming.
The result is that I'm learning Elixir/Phoenix and having the same reaction Dave Thomas describes in his new book, that is, finding anew the joy of programming.