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Rolling With Ruby On Rails

Posted by michael on from the keep-those-doggies-rolling-rawhide dept.

Bart Braem writes "The Ruby community is abuzz about Rails, a web application framework that makes database-backed apps dead simple. What's the fuss? Is it worth the hype? Curt Hibbs shows off Rails at ONLamp, building a simple application that even non-Rubyists can follow."

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  1. Good for "recipe" queries but little else by IHateSlashDot · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    It's funny. I was just discussing the bygone days of visual programming the other day. It faded into obscurtity with good reason in the late 80's.

    Take a look at this example. It's incrediblyl complicated and all it does is display a horrible little form that lets you query cookbook recipies!

    Why do people get all excited about this nonsense. There's no reason for either Ruby or Rail (nice name) today.

    It's not useful for anything bigger than a 'hello world' application.

  2. Re:Nice framework... by jrockway · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If you were a real computer scientist, and not a code monkey, you would not have made that statement.

    "I don't like it, so it must be poorly designed." Riiiight.

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