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What's the Secret Sauce in Ruby on Rails?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the having-a-hard-time-caring dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Ruby on Rails seems to be a lightning rod for controversy. At the heart of most of the controversy lies amazing productivity claims. Rails isn't a better hammer; it's a different kind of tool. This article explores the compromises and design decisions that went into making Rails so productive within its niche."

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  1. Re:Nice Summary. by Sky+Cry · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nice summary. Too bad it's stolen verbatim from TFA.

    I bet noone would realize, since nobody ever reads TFA. It's a sad world, when people steal summaries from the articles they link to.

  2. i thought Ruby on Rails by zwad · · Score: 1, Funny

    I thought Ruby on Rails sounded cool, until I saw that it automatically pluralizes person to people. any computer language that does that, in my opinion is just to unpredictable to use.

    1. Re:i thought Ruby on Rails by misleb · · Score: 3, Funny

      Yeah, next thing you know it will try to pluralize "dog" as "dogs" or something crazy and unpredictable like that!

      -matthew

      --
      "THERE IS NO JUSTICE, THERE IS ONLY ME." -Death
  3. Re:It's Ruby by Nicolay77 · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's by far the most flexible language I've ever used. It allows programmers to modify the most fundmental aspects of the language.

    I guess you will love LISP macros.

    --
    We are Turing O-Machines. The Oracle is out there.
  4. Re:Nice Summary. by ardu · · Score: 1, Funny

    Be positive!
    A slashdot editor that read TFA: priceless!

  5. Special sauce? by BorgCopyeditor · · Score: 4, Funny
    Farnsworth: Hmm. Let me see that vial, Bender. [He takes it and puts it in a microwave-like machine. A readout prints and he looks at it and gasps.] Good Lord! According to the spectrolizer, Spargle's magic ingredient was ... water. Ordinary water!

    [Everyone gasps.]

    Hermes: No!

    Fry: Ah, so the real gift Spargle gave you was confidence. The confidence to be your best.

    Farnsworth: Yes, ordinary water.... Laced with nothing more than a few spoonfuls of LSD.

    --
    Shop as usual. And avoid panic buying.
  6. Re:Conservative, not liberal. by Ratatoo · · Score: 1, Funny

    "Conservative, not liberal." "...I must repeat, with the MIT license, the emphasis is placed on freedom and liberty..."

    I'm almost certain that liberty is liberal... Best commentary that refuses to notice that conservative and liberal are not opposite each other - EVAH!!!

    And FYI America was designed by the FF to bring Glory to God - that's science, look it up! How does the MIT license bring teh Glory? Hmmmm? That's right, ZERO Glory inside and you know what that means... Ruby on Rails is a one way ticket to H E (double hockeysticks) and the MIT license is the Devil. The founding fathers would not approve.

    B

  7. Re:Nice Summary. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nice comment. Too bad its stolen verbatim from the article AND the summary.

  8. Re:Nice Summary. by Alterion · · Score: 2, Funny

    exactly, this improves the amount of the article that most /.'ers will read by 100%

  9. It's Forth. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    So which "cheap imitation" camp is Forth in then with its dictionary?

    "I put the blame for this squarely on the shoulders of modern computer science degree schemes."

    Guess all those self-educated CS'ers are immune.

    "People graduate thinking languages like Java and C are the state of the art, and then go on to re-invent concepts from the '70s believing that they are novel."

    And yet Prolog is still in the closet.

  10. Easy one by arodland · · Score: 2, Funny

    The secret sauce is "Hype". And if you lift the bun, you find that there's more secret sauce than meat.