Haters gonna hate. My take: DSLs are a useful way to make code easier to read, and more importantly easier to write correctly. Exploring this space and sharing your learnings is useful and valuable.
Ruby is a language that optimizes for the local maxima at the cost of the global maxima.
Now every library, company or code base has its own pattern and you have to learn its pit falls. Better to learn once, cry once and just deal with it imo.
As they say, good enough is the enemy of perfection.
Article author here - thank you for putting it this way. This is exactly the attitude I wanted to convey: it's something I tried and really liked for this specific use case. I shared because I hope it might inspire others.
"Friendly Attributes" is not the "new way", not to be used "everywhere now", does not "apply to all scenarios".
If you like it, maybe you'll use it once in the next five years when the opportunity arises.
