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Zed Shaw, creator of the popular Mongrel HTTP daemon / library, has decided it was high time to tear into the Ruby/Rails community for many different complaints that he has been collecting over the last few years. "Rails is a Ghetto" is Shaw's self-proclaimed exit strategy from the Rails community. "This is that rant. It is part of my grand exit strategy from the Ruby and Rails community. I don't want to be a 'Ruby guy' anymore, and will probably start getting into more Python, Factor, and Lua in the coming months. I've got about three or four more projects in the works that will use all of those and not much Ruby planned. This rant is full of stories about companies and people who've either pissed in my cheerios somehow or screwed over friends. I can back all of them up from emails, IRC chat logs, or with witnesses. Nothing in here is a lie unless it's really obviously a lie through exaggeration, and there's a lot of my opinion as well."

Comments

Re:Don't threaten people on your company's web sit

[spun]

Okay, whatever. You said : "Zed: I could hurt you." You were trying to be funny, I get it now. It wasn't, it was almost as pathetic as his posturing. Because the fact is, in a fair fight he would mess you up good. His ability to beat people up is still a silly thing for him to mention, but for you to claim you could hurt someone is just laughable.

Now people here are calling you on just how laughable it was. And not in a "laughing with you" kind of way.

Re:Trailer trash commentary

[rmerry72]

After skimming past a few paragraphs and seeing the level of his discourse, I had no confidence in his credibility and stopped reading.

Its a fucking blog. An opinion only, not the fucking bible or an op-ed in the paper. What credibility do you require for a fucking off-the-cuff blog????? He's just speaking out with whatever goes through his head at the time his fingers are on the keyboard - and he tells you that in the first paragraph. What did you expect or want?

If you don't like it then don't read it and don't go to the effort of telling us you didn't read it and why you didn't read it. This is a commentary for those that did read it and want to discuss whatever salient points he might have (and he had plenty!).

"Oh look mum, they posted my comment on Slashdot! Whoa I'm on the web! I'm important!" We need an IQ test for membership to Slashdot. A simple test to prove commentors actually have an IQ. Otherwise we're just a news.com comments page.