# Ask Slashdot: Is Ruby on Rails Maintainable?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ask-slashdot-is-ruby-on-rails-maintainable/50872>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [December 22, 2005, 2:03am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ask-slashdot-is-ruby-on-rails-maintainable/50872 "2005-12-22T02:03:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![dandiebolt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@dandiebolt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dandiebolt)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 2:03am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ask-slashdot-is-ruby-on-rails-maintainable/50872/1 "2005-12-22T02:03:33Z")

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Ask Slashdot: Is Ruby on Rails Maintainable?  
Posted by Cliff on Wednesday December 21, @12:51PM  
from the would-you-want-to-edit-the-code-later dept.

kale77in asks: “I’ve become a big fan of Ruby over the past few months,  
but I’m not at all sure about Ruby On Rails. Automatic code generation  
sets of alarm bells in my mind; so that, to RoR’s promise of ‘Web  
Development that Doesn’t Hurt’, I automatically add ‘…until you have  
to maintain it’. On the other hand, some writers and coders I respect  
(like the Pragmatic Programming mob) seem to be fans. I’ve mainly  
written generators in Python, to produce PHP/SQL/Java from SQL files,  
but I’ve always gone back to well-constructed objects, where extension  
and overloading offers more precise and maintainable customization than  
auto-generation allows. So is Rails just a nice RAD tool for disposable,  
cookie-cutter apps (which have a place, of course)? Is high-level  
generation just a bad OO substitute? And what has your experience of  
Rails’ maintainability been?”

[Is Ruby on Rails Maintainable? - Slashdot](http://ask.slashdot.org/askslashdot/05/12/21/153252.shtml?tid=156&tid=4)

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**Author:** ![dandiebolt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@dandiebolt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dandiebolt)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 6:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ask-slashdot-is-ruby-on-rails-maintainable/50872/2 "2005-12-22T18:14:16Z")

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On 12/21/05, Dan D. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> Ask Slashdot: Is Ruby on Rails Maintainable?  
> Posted by Cliff on Wednesday December 21, @12:51PM  
> from the would-you-want-to-edit-the-code-later dept.

> [Is Ruby on Rails Maintainable? - Slashdot](http://ask.slashdot.org/askslashdot/05/12/21/153252.shtml?tid=156&tid=4)

Too bad discussions on Slashdot are usually 80% devoid of any actual  
intelligence… ☹

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Regards,  
John W.

> **[John Wilger](http://johnwilger.com)**
>
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