I think rails has plateaud in terms of improvements. The article is pointing out the tight coupling of activerecord with business logic which is the consequence of a belief that I strongly disagree with in the rails community. 'fat models, skinny controllers' has caused a lot of mayhem as minor database updates (or update intention) triggers a cascade of actions.

This behaviour is counter to the model2 MVC implementation that rails is using as controllers should really be in charge of coordinating (helped by specialized classes if need be).

The author correctly points out that the way rails deals with views is painful however rails views are not tied to the model at all, they are tied to controllers and this can be modified if need be.

I personally maintain an approach of tying dedicated ruby classes to view files (e.g. SidebarComponent) and compose the view in the controller using a chain of these classes. This approach is much more object-oriented and avoids the weird pass-along view-hierarchies that many rails projects have.

There are much things to improve about rails but the project doesn't seem to absorb more object-oriented approaches over time and is tilted heavily towards DSL's for everything and doesn't value creating a more specialized class hierarchy to encapsulate more complexity.

I don't see a need to move away from Rails yet though as you can easily work inside the framework in a more Object-oriented approach. I guess you can characterize my approach as skinny models, skinny controllers, fat business logic objects and every partial is powered by a view object.