Rails' Ridiculous Restrictions, a Rant

[jcwentz]

http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.309321.4

[brett]

DHH responds in the commments: http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.309321....

[joshwa]

some of that stuff has been fixed in the 1.5 years since this was written...

[thomasswift]

This is old. Switchtower is now Capistrano and reaching a version 2.0

[chaostheory]

Reminds me of the rants people make against Apple's software

[tuukkah]

Took me a while to realize the rant wasn't by Joel.

[Readmore]

You're funny jcwentz

[jcwentz → Readmore]

I didn't write it, I just posted this link.

[tx]

Notice how DB-centric that guy is. That is exactly why I disguise SQL-servers and prefer to keep everything (well... as much as possible) written in one language (Ruby) and this is precisely what Rails is good at.

DB performs two very-very boring actions: it only stores and retreives data for you. Definitely not the most exciting things a software hacker dreams of. One very smart guy once called all databases "toilets where we keep our @#it, I prefer less primitive activities".

Rails tries as much as possible to relief a programmer from this repetitive #@it-taking exercise.

[sbraford → tx]

OT: yeah, but have you ever passed a really, really large one?

For a few seconds there, you think you're about to meet your maker.

[spiralhead → sbraford]

I think you could use some fiber in your diet (am I supposed to include some sort of programming metaphor?).