Comments on: Railing against Ruby http://blog.uncommons.org/2007/09/24/railing-against-ruby/ Rants and opinion interspersed with awe-inspiring tales of heoric software engineering endeavours. Tue, 17 Aug 2010 03:04:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Wahoo http://blog.uncommons.org/2007/09/24/railing-against-ruby/comment-page-1/#comment-47 Wahoo Sat, 06 Oct 2007 02:33:58 +0000 http://blog.uncommons.org/?p=38#comment-47 Thank you for sharing! Thank you for sharing!

]]> By: Shanti Braford http://blog.uncommons.org/2007/09/24/railing-against-ruby/comment-page-1/#comment-44 Shanti Braford Wed, 26 Sep 2007 05:49:39 +0000 http://blog.uncommons.org/?p=38#comment-44 It's sad that a few bad apples from the RoR community have made people feel like the ruby/rails community is full of a bunch of fanboys. (really not trying to blogspam but I blogged more on that here): http://sablog.com/archives/2007/09/23/humans-suck-at-understanding-sample-sizes It lowers the dialog and generally makes people on both sides look like d-bags when the debate gets lowered to the level of calling each other fanboys & taking potshots at one another. (i.e. the RailsEnvy guys might be guilty of this) bwtaylor's sticking point, which is just silly imho, is that he likes ruby but won't use rails because a few "fanboys" have adopted the language and spout off on their blogs or whatever. That's like being a Linux fan one minute and then deciding to switch back to Windows because a few fanboy linux bloggers got some attention all of a sudden. (let's face it, "fanboys" exist for everything) It’s sad that a few bad apples from the RoR community have made people feel like the ruby/rails community is full of a bunch of fanboys.

(really not trying to blogspam but I blogged more on that here): http://sablog.com/archives/2007/09/23/humans-suck-at-understanding-sample-sizes

It lowers the dialog and generally makes people on both sides look like d-bags when the debate gets lowered to the level of calling each other fanboys & taking potshots at one another. (i.e. the RailsEnvy guys might be guilty of this)

bwtaylor’s sticking point, which is just silly imho, is that he likes ruby but won’t use rails because a few “fanboys” have adopted the language and spout off on their blogs or whatever.

That’s like being a Linux fan one minute and then deciding to switch back to Windows because a few fanboy linux bloggers got some attention all of a sudden. (let’s face it, “fanboys” exist for everything)

]]> By: revscat http://blog.uncommons.org/2007/09/24/railing-against-ruby/comment-page-1/#comment-42 revscat Mon, 24 Sep 2007 19:12:17 +0000 http://blog.uncommons.org/?p=38#comment-42 Dunno. It seems like the RoR frenzy was to a greater-or-lesser degree driven by Pragmatic Programmers, and now that they have published an Erlang book we're suddenly seeing the momentum shift in that direction. Call me skeptical. Ruby is fine, interesting even, but it's not all that. And Active Record sucks, sorry. Dunno. It seems like the RoR frenzy was to a greater-or-lesser degree driven by Pragmatic Programmers, and now that they have published an Erlang book we’re suddenly seeing the momentum shift in that direction.

Call me skeptical. Ruby is fine, interesting even, but it’s not all that.

And Active Record sucks, sorry.

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