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Thinking about Rails? Think Again

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the or-not-at-all dept.

wolfeon writes "In 2005, Derek Sivers of CD Baby wanted to scrap his site and perform a rewrite in Rails. He hired Jeremy Kemper, also known as bitsweat on Freenode, to help on the project. Two years later, through blood and sweat, the project was then canceled because of limitations of Rails. Rails just wasn't meant to do everything since it is very much "canned" project. Mr. Sivers has written an entry in the O'Reilly blog: 7 reasons I switched back to PHP."

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  1. Re:Why rewrite existing systems? by Slim+Backwater · · Score: 5, Funny

    I submit to you, my fellow slashdotters, the parent post for the most ironic post ever. Such a long, insightful post about how to do a successful software deployment, and then not clicking preview to realize that the formatting of your list is all screwed up. Only posting as an A/C saved you a year of personal shame.