"Adequate Record" does not exactly fill one with confidence regarding rails. This says "our last versions had inadequate performance,this one is just ok"
It's all tongue in cheek from tenderlove, someone with a long history of contributing to ruby and rails.
What is AdequateRecord Pro™?
AdequateRecord Pro™ is a fork of ActiveRecord with some
performance enhancements. In this post, I want to talk about
how we achieved high performance in this branch. I hope you
find these speed improvements to be “adequate”.
Group discounts for AdequateRecord Pro™ are available
depending on the number of seats you wish to purchase.
-- http://tenderlovemaking.com/2014/02/19/adequaterecord-pro-like-activerecord.html
Sorry you felt that way. That project was sponsored by http://adequatehq.com/, so we don't really have much controll over that. Try emailing their marketing department maybe?