"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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