What's the Secret Sauce in Ruby on Rails?

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."

Comments

Re:Nice Summary.

[Sky Cry]

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.

Re:It's Ruby

[Nicolay77]

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.

Special sauce?

[BorgCopyeditor]

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.

Re:Nice Summary.

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Re:Nice Summary.

[Alterion]

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

Re:i thought Ruby on Rails

[misleb]

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

-matthew

Easy one

[arodland]

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