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Rails May Not Suck

Posted by timothy on from the isn't-the-question-whether-rails-suck dept.

KDan writes "With astonishing regularity, articles or posts come out claiming that the popular Ruby on Rails framework sucks in some way or another. People complain that Rails isn't as easy to deploy as PHP, that Rails just didn't do it for project XYZ. They range from the articulate and well thought out to the frankly inane and stupid (and wrong). Recently, there's also of course been the spectacular nuclear rant by Zed Shaw, which was more a rant against random elements of the community than against Rails, but was still presented as a rant against Rails. Here's an article that tries to put some perspective on why these opinions are irrelevant to whether or not Rails sucks."

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  1. Re:Usual OSS criticism argument... by Chandon+Seldon · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    How about instead of whining about people whining about their software, Rails advocates fix some of the issues causing arguments against their framework?

    How about not.

    I'm developing an app in Rails right now, and it's meeting my needs perfectly. If I have problems with it, I'll fix them. If you have problems with it, you fix them.

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