# Elixir vs Ruby on Rails

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**Category:** Discussions\
**Tags:** ruby\
**Created:** [June 4, 2020, 12:17am UTC](https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/elixir-vs-ruby-on-rails/32084 "2020-06-04T00:17:38Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 4, 2020, 6:58am UTC](https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/elixir-vs-ruby-on-rails/32084/8 "2020-06-04T06:58:30Z")

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> [@stratacast](#):
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> because Elixir == Rails

If someone says this, the problem is psychological, not technical. They are labeling something to deliberately attach some known bad connotations and they are priming others to feel bad upfront – and likely be driven by confirmation bias when looking into it.

This is most likely deliberate, because people generally hate changes of status quo. It’s rather natural defensive mechanism, doesn’t necessarily mean that they are “bad people”.

Try to go via their ego, carefully indirectly question their ability to apply critical thinking on this.. Make sure not to attack anyone directly. Raise a rhetorical question “I wonder if we have anyone in the team that would be able to filter out all our biases and perform independent analysis…”. You plant a bug and some folks will step up 🙂

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