On: What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014)

[icheishvili]

AR is the gold standard. AR + extended gem + Arel covers almost 100% of the problem space. For everything else, use views or set returning functions and wrap them up in AR.

[mst → icheishvili]

AR took at least ten years to catch up with the perl state of the art but does seem to be doing pretty well these days.