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Rails May Not Suck
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."
May not suck... Wow, such strong verbiage. How can you possibly defend such a rigid stance?
Next time you're trying to defend something, don't start from 'may not suck'. Try something a little more positive.
"If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you." - DM
Man, all these crazy names are hard to keep track of. At first I thought you tried and failed at Ruby, said "screw it" to the coding, and switched to spaghetti westerns.
unless i get a description of the author's prowess in martial arts and ability to kick my ass in a general time frame (10 seconds? 2 minutes?).