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Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the less-than-elegant-exit-strategies dept.

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."

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  1. So what by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've been saying RoR sucks for years. Where's my story?

    1. Re:So what by stoolpigeon · · Score: 5, Funny

      apparently you didn't use enough profanity or brag enough about martial arts skills and willingness to fight anyone who disagrees with you. ramp that up and see what happens.

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      It's hard to believe that's how Micronians are made. Why don't we see it right now by having you both kiss one another?
  2. Still no job? by jamie · · Score: 5, Funny

    He sounds like a real people person. I can't imagine why companies aren't jumping at the chance to hire this guy.

    1. Re:Still no job? by raju1kabir · · Score: 5, Funny

      Too late, I already beat the shit out of Zed this morning. He was coming out of Starbucks carrying a Tazo Chai Crème and giggling about his new Hello Kitty cravat, and frankly, I just couldn't help myself. One open hand to the face, and he dropped like a bad packet hitting ipf, and then just sort of sat there on the pavement cringing and giggling. A couple girl scouts came by and kicked him in the teeth, then skipped off laughing as he threatened through a rain of tears to badmouth them in his blog.

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      "Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it." -- GBS
  3. Whose chopper is this? by reverseengineer · · Score: 5, Funny
    It is part of my grand exit strategy from the Ruby and Rails community.

    Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead.

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    "FDA staff reviewers expressed concern about the number of patients who were left out of the study because they died."