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> In reality you should

What people *should* do and what they did do are often different; what the language encourages, etc. But I didn't write this codebase. Here it is and I have to deal with it.

>> rails
> I think it is fair to say that Ruby

Ruby isn't Rails. Ruby is nice. Try using the language without touching Rails. It's enjoyable. You fire up irb, load up a JSON parser, walk down a data structure, toss a few transformations at it. It's nicer than ever touching jq.

> Especially if you need something that doesn't perform awful.

Player skill issue.