One of the perks of Rails is that Ruby itself makes it more compelling.
When you need to get to something that the framework doesn’t expose, Ruby makes it easy to get to it without having to rewrite the framework, extend a class and replace it in multiple places or fork it just to use your modification.
This applies to the entire gem ecosystem too.
Over the years this ability has saved me numerous headaches with only a few lines of code. IMO it’s the real super power of Ruby.
When you need to get to something that the framework doesn’t expose, Ruby makes it easy to get to it without having to rewrite the framework, extend a class and replace it in multiple places or fork it just to use your modification.
This applies to the entire gem ecosystem too.
Over the years this ability has saved me numerous headaches with only a few lines of code. IMO it’s the real super power of Ruby.