Ruby on Rails VS Angular

Django needs a marketing push. I opened the website and immediately it smells like a 2011 web framework. Like CakePHP. Like Zend. Like Kohana.

The site makes the project feel extremely dated, which of course I have no idea how true that is, I've never used Django! Just my 2c from an outsider.

I compare it to Phoenix and Rails. (again, talking PURELY marketing here dudes!)

https://www.phoenixframework.org/

https://rubyonrails.org/

Previous value: nil New value: false Purpose: To understand the impact of enabling this particular flag I had to go through some PRs on rails official repo and came across the following PR. The description of which provides an important hint towards a bug that exists with the deprecated behavior of comparing AC::Parameters with a Hash

From there, I went into a long phase of copy & paste: throw code at an LLM, ask it to analyze or rewrite, and stitch the result back in. It kind of worked. When reasoning models arrived, my confidence went up: wait a minute, wait three—freshly baked code appears. In Rails, that meant small adjustments and I was done. In Marten, I had to correct more, which made sense — newer framework, less model knowledge.

> they often automatically pluralize, with the predictable result of seeing tables with names like addresss.

This is a very poor example, that case is literally in their unit tests file:

https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/b0c813bc7b61c71dd21ee3a6...

Full list of changes:

https://github.com/rails/rails/releases/tag/v8.1.0.beta1

Ruby on Rails (developer-friendly, great for startups)

feat(router): add controls for route cleanup #65991

Hydration transforms a pre-rendered HTML page (produced by server-side rendering) into a fully interactive Angular application on the client side. With incremental hydration (here the complete RFC), you can determine when specific parts of your application need to become interactive.

Luckily, as of Angular 21.0.1, there's now a really clean way to add them back.

Angular PDF libraries provide a powerful set of features that enable developers to create, display, and manipulate PDF documents, which include an Angular PDF viewer/editor, directly within an Angular application. Which helps us to create PDF files, being a common format for reports, invoices, forms, and downloadable content, their implementation has become an indispensable part of today's web development.

feat(forms): add `debounce()` rule for signal forms #64929

Custom validators are one of those things you'll definitely need when building real-world forms. But if you've been wondering how they work with Angular's new Signal Forms API, you're in the right place. Today we'll migrate a form with custom validation from Reactive Forms to Signal Forms, and I think you'll be pleasantly surprised by how straightforward it is. The syntax changes are minimal, and the result is cleaner, more reactive code.

I've made a few tutorials on Signal Forms now, and I've seen the comments. Some of you said the old Reactive Forms way is just as good, or you just still like it better. And I get it. Maybe the benefit hasn't been obvious. So today, I'm going to show you a real-world form (the kind that gets messy fast) and we're going to rebuild it using Signal Forms. By the end of this post, hopefully you'll see the advantage, not just hear me say it.

Building dynamic forms in Angular has always felt a little like assembling IKEA furniture without the instructions. But soon, there will be a simpler, more reactive way. One that actually feels reactive. In this tutorial, we’ll take a dynamic form built with classic Reactive Forms and upgrade it to use the new Signal Forms API. It's still experimental, but what it can already do will make you wish it wasn’t.