Thursday, 14 February 2008

2008_02_01_archive



"Rails...shudder"

I was reading through Paul Graham's post on the Arc forums earlier

today, where he challenged people to implement a specific program in

as few lines of code as possible. The whole thread is fascinating. But

one thing caught my eye: about half way through, one post implements

the program in Ruby using Ramaze. He also says something along the

lines of how that's way better than Rails (and "shudder" presumably at

the thought of using Rails).

That's part of a bigger anti-Rails trend I've seen recently, including

Zed's now-famous rant. I've seen a bunch of these, some big, and some

small. Note: I myself don't have strong feelings towards Rails, either

pro or con. It's fun for some things, not fine for others, like

virtually all frameworks.

Overall I see it as a sign of health in the Ruby community, because

with more maturity come more use-cases (or vice versa), and these lead


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