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Thanks for the context. The example you describe supports the meme better.

Sorry for being harsh, I got triggered by that code inside the printer, because I've dealt with a lot of dumb "I don't know how SQL joins work, so I'll use my ORM to do it and filter the data in code" cases early in my career, and I have sort of an allergy to that now.

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I see this so much in Rails codebases that at this point the two are nearly synonymous in my mind. But maybe I’ve been cursed to work only on bad Rails projects or something and there’s a universe of them out there that aren’t full of that sort of thing.

There are rails codebases written by people who love both ActiveRecord and SQL and try to optimize both performance AND developer productivity. ;)

But this is war. Pick a side!

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