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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."
I've been saying RoR sucks for years. Where's my story?
He sounds like a real people person. I can't imagine why companies aren't jumping at the chance to hire this guy.
Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead.
"FDA staff reviewers expressed concern about the number of patients who were left out of the study because they died."
I actually started to read TFA, but discovered that it appears to just be a bunch of high school drama. Or something.
Offering to kick people's ass and bragging about his martial arts prowess, with extra points for claiming to be deadly? What is this, Fidonet?
As for pro bodyguards: if they're there to protect you, and not just to show off how important you are, then they carry Uzis.
Schrödinger's download is slow.
2/1/2007
Today, Theo de Raadt declared that henceforth he would "be nice to people", because "not even the mightiest asshole gods on Mount Asshole can top the the egomaniacal rantings of this Rails douchebag who no-one has ever heard of".
By comparing the significance of their work versus there public tactfulness, Linus Torvalds has now been awarded the Nobel Prize for niceness, and the American Marriage Council has awarded Hans Reiser 'Husband Of The Year'.
${YEAR+1} is going to be the year of Linux on the desktop!
I mean, if you're a real tough guy you'll just burn the fucker's house down while he sleeps inside of it. When he flees the building, then you go to town with a 8lb baby sledge while his children watch.
(If you're gonna call 'pussy', you really should come with something more hardcore)
Blar.
...because he graduated with honours from the Theo de Raadt School of Diplomacy.
Some predictions for 2008:
* Zed will fork and re-factor the framework, quietly releasing the far technically superior and more stable "OpenRails".
* Google will use OpenRails to successfully deploy the Beta release of its Next Big Thing. It handles thousands of requests per nanosecond and Google's share price spikes, though it doesn't account for any of Google's revenue.
* The PHP community declares "OpenRails is dead!"
92.6% of all statistics are made up on the spot. (Yes, I had to.)
Fair point, but to a large extent Albert Einstein, Alan Turing, and Ada Augusta all worked alone; and they did ok in terms of ideas and lack of jerkness.
Although I bet Zed would kick their collective asses, using his nunchucks and rudimentary understanding of the HTTP spec.
It's Zed's. Who's Zed? Zed's dead. Well, career-wise at least ;-)
Zed is the new Theo.
Wow. Just... wow. I honestly didn't think Slashdot could get any more puerile.
I'm assuming that SourceForge is finally going out of business, and the staff has decided to snuff out Slashdot like a bag of flaming poo?
Holy shit, are you off your meds or something?
Chuck Norris came along and bent the ruby rails into loops!
#!/usr/bin/huckabee
use CHUCK_NORRIS;
That's as far as I've gotten with my new language.
I've decided it will be statically typed. With Huckabee types, you know where everything stands.
Make sure you include some runtime checking, because you never know what might get loaded and linked.