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<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*w8gS6tqRhLiC88zPy8S6_A.jpeg" /><figcaption>This is a typical Gopher writing code… on Rails 🚈!</figcaption></figure>I ❤️ Ruby on Rails. With all my 💛. I can rapid-prototype any 3–4 models app in a couple of hours and do a POC in an afternoon, and this is thanks to scaffolding. I can write this and RoR will create a proper Model, Controller, and ~4 Views (MVC) and DB schema with rock-solid change-management :<pre>rails generate scaffold Album title:string year:decimal singer:reference rails generate scaffold Track title:string duration:decimal album:references rails generate scaffold Article title:string body:string comment:string rating:integer url:string is_public:boolean bundle exec rake db:migrate</pre>However, my colleagues bully me that🔻Ruby is dead, 🚈 Rails is dead, and long live 📦 Node.Js and so on. So I thought: it’s 🎅 December, let’s learn a new language. I thought of learning C# — just kidding (I’m already a pianist)— I thought that Golang was the way to go. As of December 1st 🎅, everyone on Facebook has a single thing in mind: Whammageddon!After taking a 2h course in Go and doing my first word count, my head got big and I thought: I’m now ready for the next step: a silly Whammageddon app to record my friends whammageddon spectacular stories!<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/640/0*DdSJzp9ib9Un8Nf-.jpg" /><figcaption>Whammageddon rules — if you just woke up from a criogenic coffin yesterday :)</figcaption></figure><h4>🚈 Golang on Rails options</h4>I tried (meaning, I spent 2 hours each) a few options (Bee, Revel, Buffalo), and I’ll describe them in order. Note that I might be unfair to the first in chronological order as my ability to go get something wasn’t as good as in try number 3 :)<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/0*wSymZpyLJCBXn29b.png" /><figcaption>Queen Bee might be biased on who wins…</figcaption></figure><h4>1: 🐝 <a href="https://github.com/beego/beego">Beego</a></h4><figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/757/1*I3y7zygaqbuHY2CMlqNIVQ.png" /><figcaption>Code source: <a href="https://github.com/beego/beego">https://github.com/beego/beego</a></figcaption></figure><a href="https://github.com/beego/beego">Beego</a> was the first Google result for “Ruby on Rails” for go. To be fair to bee, I was on a long flight to Israel and tried to make it work with jumpy airport internet and the experience was horrible (as a true Italian, I thought of filing a PR to enlarge gocapabilities with a new 4-letter verb). Nothing wrong with Bee, though.This is how a migration looks like:Pros 😃:<ul><li>I really enjoyed its ability to simply create ORM model from CLI. Example:</li></ul><pre>$ bee generate scaffold riccardo_post -fields &#39;title:string,body:text,active:bool,published:datetime&#39;</pre><ul><li>It also allows to have different models connecting to different datasources (wOOt! I wonder how you do a JOIN from Europe to Australia). Example: ```</li></ul><pre>bee generate scaffold user -fields=&quot;first_name:string:255,last_name:string:255,email:string:255&quot; -driver=postgres -conn=&quot;postgres://user:pass@localhost:5432/db?sslmode=disable&quot; bee generate scaffold riccpost -fields=&quot;title:string,body:text&quot; -driver=mysql -conn=&quot;root:@tcp(127.0.0.1:3306)/test&quot;</pre><ul><li>CLI allows to create docs and swagger interface on the fly via bee run -downdoc=true -gendoc=true .</li><li>I ~supports 80% scaffolding for model, controllers, DB/migration but creates an empty view (<a href="https://github.com/beego/bee/issues/102">github issue</a>). In my case, it gets the controller dependencies wrong (probably because its a monorepo) and I need to manually fix it ( long path to beego-whammageddon/models). 😫</li></ul><figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*m2ybLgp4pQgKU5OelQQ9lA.png" /><figcaption>It politely asks me if I want to create model, controller, resource, migration and migrate the DB itself! Wow!</figcaption></figure><ul><li>bee dockerize creates a Dockerfile for you. I’ve always wished for the same on RoR!</li></ul>Cons 😢 :<ul><li>Lack of Scaffolding capabilities on the view side. It rocks on model/migration, but it doesn’t create the needed views.</li><li>Scaffolding on Controller side seems broken to me. I get Method Not Allowed, which is answered <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28545260/configure-beego-router-to-serve-index-html-for-angularjs-non-server-routes">here</a> (missing Get()function — why would you do that?!?)</li></ul><h4>2. 🥳 <a href="https://revel.github.io/">Revel</a></h4><figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/855/0*auID_UEO9MIMprUk.png" /><figcaption>Source: <a href="https://revel.github.io/">https://revel.github.io/</a></figcaption></figure>When <a href="https://levelup.gitconnected.com/golang-beego-vs-revel-how-to-choose-63ee8f081bc3">I read from Amrit</a>: “ If you have used Ruby on Rails, you are going to love Revel. If you are a Python developer who has used Django, you will like Beego.” I felt: what have I done in the past 4 hours?!? I had an agnition, or shall I say… a revelation!!Revel has a very simple and straightforward <a href="http://revel.github.io/tutorial/firstapp.html">docs page</a> which will guide you through a multi-page, stateless form-rich hello world within 10 minutes.It has <a href="https://github.com/revel/modules">modules</a> (pluggable packages) for NewRelic, Static files, Logging, ..It has nice <a href="https://github.com/revel/examples">examples</a> repos; the closest to Ror seems to be the Booking app (<a href="https://revel.github.io/examples/booking.html">docs</a> — <a href="https://github.com/revel/examples/tree/master/booking">code</a>). Code is from 2020.It uses <a href="https://github.com/go-gorp/gorp">GORP</a> as ORM. However, after first excitement, I realized also Revel lacks a proper way to scaffoldI was too stupid to make it work and I threw the sponge. Hoewver with 2 lines you can actually get this — wow!<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/715/1*tSpbPlJ-wQ8wrB07WbIqow.png" /></figure>Commands to achieve this (copied from <a href="https://github.com/revel/examples">here</a>):<pre>git clone https://github.com/revel/examples.git &quot;${GOPATH}/src/github.com/revel/examples&quot; #DOESNT WORK FOR ME - I might be stuipid revel run github.com/revel/examples/booking # THIS WORKS FOR ME revel run &quot;${GOPATH}/src/github.com/revel/examples&quot;</pre>So if you have time to understand and reverse engineer the booking app, you’re going to enjoy Revel a lot. However, the inability to scaffold from scratch is a real turn off for me.Here I totally failed to do any scaffolding: no model/controller/view for me. I’ll probably spend some time in the weekend reverse-engineering the booking app… 😢<h4>3. 🦬<a href="https://gobuffalo.io/">Buffalo</a></h4><figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*7OoJFpCz1UHBeHudcME5Gw.png" /><figcaption>source: <a href="https://gobuffalo.io/">https://gobuffalo.io/</a></figcaption></figure>Now, the first thing you see with Buffalo is — wOOt? They even bothered adding a CSS! Clearly, there’s some money and a real company behind this (like DHH and Basecamp behind Rails). Graphics is captivating and I love it already!First, it uses <a href="https://gobuffalo.io/documentation/database/pop/">pop</a> which supports PostgreS Cockroach MySQL and Sqlite3 out of the box.With <a href="https://gobuffalo.io/documentation/database/soda/">Soda</a> and <a href="https://gobuffalo.io/documentation/database/fizz/">Fizz</a>, you get a Rails-like experience in setting up the DB and migrating it:<pre>// migrate UP create_table(&quot;users&quot;) { t.Column(&quot;email&quot;, &quot;string&quot;, {}) t.Column(&quot;twitter_handle&quot;, &quot;string&quot;, {&quot;size&quot;: 50}) t.Column(&quot;age&quot;, &quot;integer&quot;, {&quot;default&quot;: 0}) t.Column(&quot;admin&quot;, &quot;bool&quot;, {&quot;default&quot;: false}) t.Column(&quot;company_id&quot;, &quot;uuid&quot;, {&quot;default_raw&quot;: &quot;uuid_generate_v1()&quot;}) t.Column(&quot;bio&quot;, &quot;text&quot;, {&quot;null&quot;: true}) t.Column(&quot;joined_at&quot;, &quot;timestamp&quot;, {}) } // migrate down drop_table(&quot;users&quot;)</pre>This is absolutely fantastic ! Unfortunately it doesn’t seem to have the CLI interface to create a scaffold 😐, while you can reach a great experience by typing the code yourself.To use generators, it looks to me you need to install pop as a separate module: <a href="https://github.com/gobuffalo/buffalo-pop">https://github.com/gobuffalo/buffalo-pop</a>. After doing so, you get buffalo pop g --help which returns <a href="https://gobuffalo.io/documentation/database/generators/">this same output</a>. (Before, it would return a weird output).Now, I was able with a single command line (non documented anywhere, just by trying out!) to create a new model with my fields and also its migration, but not the controller and the views :/<pre> # For &#39;--skip-migration&#39; read below buffalo pop g model --skip-migration foobar RiccTitle:string RiccDescription:text buffalo pop g model --skip-migration barbaz RiccDescription:text UltimateAnswer:int32 Active:bool</pre>Note: he first time you call the function without skip miogration, but every subsequent invocation it will create another migration for the same model; so if you just want to auto-magically update the model until you got it right, you call it as above.Like in Rails, DB can be easily configured in a single YAML or via ENV variables.<pre># database.yaml development: dialect: postgres database: whamageddon_buffalo_development user: postgres password: postgres host: 127.0.0.1 pool: 5 test: url: {{envOr &quot;TEST_DATABASE_URL&quot; &quot;postgres://postgres:postgres@127.0.0.1:5432/whamageddon_buffalo_test?sslmode=disable&quot;}} production: url: {{envOr &quot;DATABASE_URL&quot; &quot;postgres://postgres:postgres@127.0.0.1:5432/whamageddon_buffalo_production?sslmode=disable&quot;}}</pre><h4>[Golang vs Ruby] on ORM and Scaffolding</h4>So my first impressions on Go (vs Ruby):<ul><li>➕blazing fast</li><li>➕compile in a single binary — easy to dockerize/ship.</li><li>➖ Go has a tendency to want your app to be single repo. What if I want to have 3 folders under the same repo — can I Mr Go?</li></ul><figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*0iP_R7AzQVGITIANUNtAuw.png" /><figcaption>No thanks Mr Go :)</figcaption></figure><ul><li>➖ Lack of a convincing zero-brain scaffolding technique.</li></ul><h4>Conclusions</h4>Like Bonucci told the Brits at the end of European Championship in London, “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69WrQRHicKU">ne dovete mangiare di pastasciutta!</a>” (you still have a lot of pasta to eat), I believe Golang has still a long way to go to get to Ruby feasts when it comes to ORM and Rails rapid-prototyping.<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/498/0*rwZiolVj9MrM3-Pf.gif" /><figcaption>Bonucci is a recognized national hero in Italy after this. Expect rolling the arm gesture to catch up with emojipedia starting v14.0!</figcaption></figure>This morning, while swimming, I wanted to create a nice table with 3–5 stars for all, but Medium doesn’t support tables. Hence I’ll just get the winner per topic:<ul><li>Documentation: revel &amp; buffalo</li><li>Look and feel: Buffalo</li><li>Documentation for day-0 hello app: revel.</li><li>Model CLI creation: beego.</li><li>Migration: Buffalo (thanks to fizz)</li><li>Scaffolding: none (rails rulez).</li></ul>However, go has a long list of advantages that makes this passage worthwhile:<ul><li>damn easy dockerization (single chubby binary)</li><li>no dependencies craze in prod (single chubby binary)</li></ul>Note there are also other solution apart from Bee, Revel and Buffalo: <a href="https://github.com/gin-gonic/gin">Gin&amp;Gonic</a>, <a href="https://github.com/goji/goji">Goji</a>, <a href="https://github.com/kataras/iris-cli">Iris</a>, … and I hear echo also strikes a great balance (think of Sinatra if you’re a rubyist).Note. I’m a ~day1 user of Go. I’m pretty sure some things I’ve said might be incorrect. I’d be honoured to get your feedback in form of comments.<img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=4558047da41" width="1" height="1" alt="">

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content: "<figure><img alt=\"\" src=\"https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*w8gS6tqRhLiC88zPy8S6_A.jpeg\"
 /><figcaption>This is a typical Gopher writing code… on Rails \U0001F688!</figcaption></figure>I
 ❤️ Ruby on Rails. With all my \U0001F49B. I can rapid-prototype any 3–4 models app
 in a couple of hours and do a POC in an afternoon, and this is thanks to scaffolding.
 I can write this and RoR will create a proper Model, Controller, and ~4 Views (MVC)
 and DB schema with rock-solid change-management :<pre>rails generate scaffold
 Album title:string year:decimal singer:reference rails generate scaffold Track
 title:string duration:decimal album:references rails generate scaffold Article
 title:string body:string comment:string rating:integer url:string is_public:boolean bundle
 exec rake db:migrate</pre>However, my colleagues bully me that\U0001F53BRuby
 is dead, \U0001F688 Rails is dead, and long live \U0001F4E6 Node.Js and so on. So
 I thought: it’s \U0001F385 December, let’s learn a new language. I thought of learning
 C# — just kidding (I’m already a pianist)— I thought that Golang was the way to
 go. As of December 1st \U0001F385, everyone on Facebook has a single thing in mind:
 Whammageddon!After taking a 2h course in Go and doing my first word count,
 my head got big and I thought: I’m now ready for the next step: a silly Whammageddon
 app to record my friends whammageddon spectacular stories!<figure><img alt=\"\"
 src=\"https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/640/0*DdSJzp9ib9Un8Nf-.jpg\" /><figcaption>Whammageddon
 rules — if you just woke up from a criogenic coffin yesterday :)</figcaption></figure><h4>\U0001F688
 Golang on Rails options</h4>I tried (meaning, I spent 2 hours each) a few options
 (Bee, Revel, Buffalo), and I’ll describe them in order. Note that I might be unfair
 to the first in chronological order as my ability to go get something wasn’t as
 good as in try number 3 :)<figure><img alt=\"\" src=\"https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/0*wSymZpyLJCBXn29b.png\"
 /><figcaption>Queen Bee might be biased on who wins…</figcaption></figure><h4>1:
 \U0001F41D <a href=\"https://github.com/beego/beego\">Beego</a></h4><figure><img
 alt=\"\" src=\"https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/757/1*I3y7zygaqbuHY2CMlqNIVQ.png\"
 /><figcaption>Code source: <a href=\"https://github.com/beego/beego\">https://github.com/beego/beego</a></figcaption></figure><a
 href=\"https://github.com/beego/beego\">Beego</a> was the first Google result for
 “Ruby on Rails” for go. To be fair to bee, I was on a long flight to Israel and
 tried to make it work with jumpy airport internet and the experience was horrible
 (as a true Italian, I thought of filing a PR to enlarge gocapabilities with a new
 4-letter verb). Nothing wrong with Bee, though.This is how a migration looks like:Pros
 \U0001F603:<ul><li>I really enjoyed its ability to simply create ORM model from
 CLI. Example:</li></ul><pre>$ bee generate scaffold riccardo_post -fields &#39;title:string,body:text,active:bool,published:datetime&#39;</pre><ul><li>It
 also allows to have different models connecting to different datasources (wOOt!
 I wonder how you do a JOIN from Europe to Australia). Example: ```</li></ul><pre>bee
 generate scaffold user -fields=&quot;first_name:string:255,last_name:string:255,email:string:255&quot;
 -driver=postgres -conn=&quot;postgres://user:pass@localhost:5432/db?sslmode=disable&quot; bee
 generate scaffold riccpost -fields=&quot;title:string,body:text&quot; -driver=mysql
 -conn=&quot;root:@tcp(127.0.0.1:3306)/test&quot;</pre><ul><li>CLI allows to create
 docs and swagger interface on the fly via bee run -downdoc=true
 -gendoc=true .</li><li>I ~supports 80% scaffolding
 for model, controllers, DB/migration but creates
 an empty view (<a href=\"https://github.com/beego/bee/issues/102\">github issue</a>).
 In my case, it gets the controller dependencies wrong (probably because its a monorepo)
 and I need to manually fix it ( long path to beego-whammageddon/models). \U0001F62B</li></ul><figure><img
 alt=\"\" src=\"https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*m2ybLgp4pQgKU5OelQQ9lA.png\"
 /><figcaption>It politely asks me if I want to create model, controller, resource,
 migration and migrate the DB itself! Wow!</figcaption></figure><ul><li>bee dockerize
 creates a Dockerfile for you. I’ve always wished for the same on RoR!</li></ul>Cons
 \U0001F622 :<ul><li>Lack of Scaffolding capabilities
 on the view side. It rocks on model/migration, but it doesn’t create
 the needed views.</li><li>Scaffolding on Controller side seems broken to me. I get
 Method Not Allowed, which is answered <a href=\"https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28545260/configure-beego-router-to-serve-index-html-for-angularjs-non-server-routes\">here</a>
 (missing Get()function — why would you do that?!?)</li></ul><h4>2. \U0001F973 <a
 href=\"https://revel.github.io/\">Revel</a></h4><figure><img alt=\"\" src=\"https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/855/0*auID_UEO9MIMprUk.png\"
 /><figcaption>Source: <a href=\"https://revel.github.io/\">https://revel.github.io/</a></figcaption></figure>When
 <a href=\"https://levelup.gitconnected.com/golang-beego-vs-revel-how-to-choose-63ee8f081bc3\">I
 read from Amrit</a>: “ If you have used Ruby on Rails, you are going to love Revel.
 If you are a Python developer who has used Django, you will like Beego.” I felt:
 what have I done in the past 4 hours?!? I had an agnition, or shall I say… a revelation!!Revel
 has a very simple and straightforward <a href=\"http://revel.github.io/tutorial/firstapp.html\">docs
 page</a> which will guide you through a multi-page, stateless form-rich hello world
 within 10 minutes.It has <a href=\"https://github.com/revel/modules\">modules</a>
 (pluggable packages) for NewRelic, Static files, Logging, ..It has nice <a
 href=\"https://github.com/revel/examples\">examples</a> repos;
 the closest to Ror seems to be the Booking app (<a href=\"https://revel.github.io/examples/booking.html\">docs</a> — <a
 href=\"https://github.com/revel/examples/tree/master/booking\">code</a>). Code is
 from 2020.It uses <a href=\"https://github.com/go-gorp/gorp\">GORP</a> as
 ORM. However, after first excitement, I realized also Revel lacks a proper way to scaffoldI
 was too stupid to make it work and I threw the sponge. Hoewver with 2 lines you
 can actually get this — wow!<figure><img alt=\"\" src=\"https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/715/1*tSpbPlJ-wQ8wrB07WbIqow.png\"
 /></figure>Commands to achieve this (copied from <a href=\"https://github.com/revel/examples\">here</a>):<pre>git
 clone https://github.com/revel/examples.git &quot;${GOPATH}/src/github.com/revel/examples&quot; #DOESNT
 WORK FOR ME - I might be stuipid revel run github.com/revel/examples/booking #
 THIS WORKS FOR ME revel run &quot;${GOPATH}/src/github.com/revel/examples&quot;</pre>So
 if you have time to understand and reverse engineer the booking app, you’re going
 to enjoy Revel a lot. However, the inability to scaffold from scratch is a real
 turn off for me.Here I totally failed to do any scaffolding: no model/controller/view
 for me. I’ll probably spend some time in the weekend reverse-engineering the booking
 app… \U0001F622<h4>3. \U0001F9AC<a href=\"https://gobuffalo.io/\">Buffalo</a></h4><figure><img
 alt=\"\" src=\"https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*7OoJFpCz1UHBeHudcME5Gw.png\"
 /><figcaption>source: <a href=\"https://gobuffalo.io/\">https://gobuffalo.io/</a></figcaption></figure>Now,
 the first thing you see with Buffalo is — wOOt? They even bothered adding a CSS!
 Clearly, there’s some money and a real company behind this (like DHH and Basecamp
 behind Rails). Graphics is captivating and I love it already!First, it uses
 <a href=\"https://gobuffalo.io/documentation/database/pop/\">pop</a>
 which supports PostgreS Cockroach MySQL and Sqlite3 out of the box.With <a
 href=\"https://gobuffalo.io/documentation/database/soda/\">Soda</a> and <a href=\"https://gobuffalo.io/documentation/database/fizz/\">Fizz</a>,
 you get a Rails-like experience in setting up the DB and migrating it:<pre>//
 migrate UP create_table(&quot;users&quot;) { t.Column(&quot;email&quot;,
 &quot;string&quot;, {}) t.Column(&quot;twitter_handle&quot;, &quot;string&quot;,
 {&quot;size&quot;: 50}) t.Column(&quot;age&quot;, &quot;integer&quot;, {&quot;default&quot;:
 0}) t.Column(&quot;admin&quot;, &quot;bool&quot;, {&quot;default&quot;: false}) 
 \ t.Column(&quot;company_id&quot;, &quot;uuid&quot;, {&quot;default_raw&quot;: &quot;uuid_generate_v1()&quot;}) 
 \ t.Column(&quot;bio&quot;, &quot;text&quot;, {&quot;null&quot;: true}) t.Column(&quot;joined_at&quot;,
 &quot;timestamp&quot;, {}) } // migrate down drop_table(&quot;users&quot;)</pre>This
 is absolutely fantastic ! Unfortunately it doesn’t seem to have the CLI interface
 to create a scaffold \U0001F610, while you can reach a great experience by typing
 the code yourself.To use generators, it looks to me you need to install pop
 as a separate module: <a href=\"https://github.com/gobuffalo/buffalo-pop\">https://github.com/gobuffalo/buffalo-pop</a>.
 After doing so, you get buffalo pop g --help which returns <a href=\"https://gobuffalo.io/documentation/database/generators/\">this
 same output</a>. (Before, it would return a weird output).Now, I was able
 with a single command line (non documented anywhere, just by trying out!) to create
 a new model with my fields and also its migration, but not the controller and the
 views :/<pre> # For &#39;--skip-migration&#39; read below buffalo pop
 g model --skip-migration foobar RiccTitle:string RiccDescription:text buffalo
 pop g model --skip-migration barbaz RiccDescription:text UltimateAnswer:int32 Active:bool</pre>Note:
 he first time you call the function without skip miogration, but every subsequent
 invocation it will create another migration for the same model; so if you just want
 to auto-magically update the model until you got it right, you call it as above.Like
 in Rails, DB can be easily configured in a single YAML or via ENV variables.<pre>#
 database.yaml development: dialect: postgres database: whamageddon_buffalo_development 
 \ user: postgres password: postgres host: 127.0.0.1 pool: 5 test: 
 \ url: {{envOr &quot;TEST_DATABASE_URL&quot; &quot;postgres://postgres:postgres@127.0.0.1:5432/whamageddon_buffalo_test?sslmode=disable&quot;}} production: 
 \ url: {{envOr &quot;DATABASE_URL&quot; &quot;postgres://postgres:postgres@127.0.0.1:5432/whamageddon_buffalo_production?sslmode=disable&quot;}}</pre><h4>[Golang
 vs Ruby] on ORM and Scaffolding</h4>So my first impressions on Go (vs Ruby):<ul><li>➕blazing
 fast</li><li>➕compile in a single binary — easy to dockerize/ship.</li><li>➖ Go
 has a tendency to want your app to be single repo. What if I want to have 3 folders
 under the same repo — can I Mr Go?</li></ul><figure><img alt=\"\" src=\"https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*0iP_R7AzQVGITIANUNtAuw.png\"
 /><figcaption>No thanks Mr Go :)</figcaption></figure><ul><li>➖ Lack of a convincing
 zero-brain scaffolding technique.</li></ul><h4>Conclusions</h4>Like Bonucci told
 the Brits at the end of European Championship in London, “<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69WrQRHicKU\">ne
 dovete mangiare di pastasciutta!</a>” (you still have a lot of
 pasta to eat), I believe Golang has still a long way to go to get to Ruby feasts
 when it comes to ORM and Rails rapid-prototyping.<figure><img alt=\"\" src=\"https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/498/0*rwZiolVj9MrM3-Pf.gif\"
 /><figcaption>Bonucci is a recognized national hero in Italy after this. Expect
 rolling the arm gesture to catch up with emojipedia starting v14.0!</figcaption></figure>This
 morning, while swimming, I wanted to create a nice table with 3–5 stars for all,
 but Medium doesn’t support tables. Hence I’ll just get the winner per topic:<ul><li>Documentation:
 revel &amp; buffalo</li><li>Look and feel: Buffalo</li><li>Documentation
 for day-0 hello app: revel.</li><li>Model CLI creation: beego.</li><li>Migration:
 Buffalo (thanks to fizz)</li><li>Scaffolding:
 none (rails rulez).</li></ul>However, go has a long
 list of advantages that makes this passage worthwhile:<ul><li>damn easy dockerization
 (single chubby binary)</li><li>no dependencies craze in prod (single chubby binary)</li></ul>Note
 there are also other solution apart from Bee, Revel and Buffalo: <a href=\"https://github.com/gin-gonic/gin\">Gin&amp;Gonic</a>,
 <a href=\"https://github.com/goji/goji\">Goji</a>, <a href=\"https://github.com/kataras/iris-cli\">Iris</a>, …
 and I hear echo also strikes a great balance (think of Sinatra
 if you’re a rubyist).Note. I’m a ~day1 user of Go. I’m pretty
 sure some things I’ve said might be incorrect. I’d be honoured to get your feedback
 in form of comments.<img src=\"https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=4558047da41\"
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