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Ask HN: What became of Steve Yegge's "Rhino on Rails"?
http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/06/rhino-on-rails.html
I just remembered about this and can't find any recent info besides Yegge calling it "a transitional thing"[1] in '08. It made a big splash after he announcement at FooCamp '07. Is it actually in use within Google? Has it or will it ever be released? Anyone know anything?
[1] http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/06/rhinos-and-tigers.html
- capablanca 17y agoWhat became of Steve Yegge?
- zyb09 17y agoI heard he's stuck in a fish tank, swimming along the edges of the glass to find a way out.
- cmallen 17y agoCould someone please explain this (joke?) to me?
- Quarrelsome 17y agoIt's something he used to notice his goldfish doing before it died of loneliness, apparently.
- yannis 17y agoIt's a sad story and very well written.
- ricardo 17y agoIt's a reference to this blog post: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/10/programmers-view-of-universe-part-1.html http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/10/programmers-view-of-...
- deleted 17y ago[deleted]
- Confusion 17y agoHe's at Google and recently announced their new static analysis framework for Python: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1054036 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1054036
- capablanca 17y agoSure... but I wish I could still read him sometimes. There is no blogger I enjoy to read these days (mostly they are too techinical...)
- litewulf 17y agoI use it. I'm working on open sourcing it. I kind of worry that the timing for open sourcing it now isn't the greatest, since with the advent of all sorts of commonjs bits, people probably already have their own frameworks. Also, the implementation lags behind what Rails looks like now, so its a bit... weird.
- tlrobinson 17y agoNote there's also ActiveJS: http://activerecordjs.org/ http://activerecordjs.org/ I'm not sure if it's being actively maintained though.
- kmt 17y agoAnd how about node.js on rails? Anyone working on it? Maybe with MongoDB backend? It looks like a convenient fit to me.
- Tichy 17y agoNow I have to ask, what exactly makes a framework a rails framework?
- jrockway 17y agoIf the default "it works" page has rounded corners and no text smaller than 32pt, it's a rails framework.
- steveklabnik 17y agoIf I had to come up with a definition, it would be "Full stack web framework with sensible defaults, that emphasizes DRY and COC." As always, any time you reduce something, it's lossy...
- kmt 17y agoI think you got two good answers. They aren't even conflicting, just presenting the two sides of the coin.
- flashgordon 17y agoactually what became of Steve Yegge?