&gt; <i>Can we please stop legitimizing Rails&#x27;s whimsical aesthetic choices by pretending that they have something to do with an academically-justified architecture, and just accept that they&#x27;re just another way of ripping your denim and then safety-pinning it closed, by which you demonstrate that you&#x27;re not a square and you don&#x27;t write Java.</i><p>Please don&#x27;t. Snark like this is good for starting technical flamewars but it invariably lowers the quality of the discussion.