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isn't "Vanilla Ruby on Rails" akin to "Vanilla Deluxe Chocolate Fudge Sundae"?
by gyanamo 6y ago
isn't "Vanilla Ruby on Rails" akin to "Vanilla Deluxe Chocolate Fudge Sundae"?
- tmpz22 6y agoOr the American “regular sized” soda which is the equivalent to an XXL soda anywhere else in the world.
- mtmail 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanilla_software https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanilla_software "when not customized from their original form, meaning that they are used without any customizations or updates applied to them"
- feifan 6y agoI imagine the above was a joke
- gyanamo 6y agoI was actually being serious. I've never seen anyone refer to a customized RoR, have you?
- learc83 6y agoSome large companies have customized rails, and since Hey is built by the company behind rails, I assume DHH meant to imply that they are not using something special that everyone else won’t get access to.
- gyanamo 6y agoah, didn't know that. appreciate the response
- jablan 6y agoThere are thousands of gems out there which either offer some functionality not in Rails, or replacing/extending some that is (typical example being rspec). Vanilla means no (too many) gems on top of Rails.
- fastball 6y agoAlso DHH still pretending that RoR is it's own thing instead of a framework built on top of Ruby.
- rhizome 6y agoDo you know what "RoR" stands for?
- fastball 6y agoYes, Ruby on Rails, the name of a web framework for Ruby. Just because there is Ruby in the name of the framework doesn’t mean the language itself doesn’t deserve a mention. The generally accepted thing to do is say LANG/FRAMEWORK, like “Python/Django”. I don’t think DHH’s choosing to include the name of the Lang (an interesting choice in and of itself tbh) in the name of the framework he made changes that.