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I saw it and I don't think it make it any justice, Ruby on Rails changed the paradigm of creating web applications with routes instead of files (like PHP, JSP a

I saw it and I don't think it make it any justice, Ruby on Rails changed the paradigm of creating web applications with routes instead of files (like PHP, JSP and Webforms did) with the MVC pattern that now is present in every respectable web framework and the documentary doesn't tell that. It was enjoyable though.

steve1977 3y ago
MVC was already used in frameworks like WebObjects for example (and maybe others) quite a while before Ruby on Rails was born.
- cooljacob204 3y ago
  Sure but I think the point is Rails popularized it.
  - runjake 3y ago
    MVC was popular before Rails. Rails certainly introduced MVC to a lot of new people, though.
  - steve1977 3y ago
    It probably made it more available to the masses (as WebObjects was not free and license costs where in the region of a car at some point)
stevoski 3y ago
Struts was a popular Java MVC framework in the early 2000’s and was pre-Rails. I kind of feel bad mentioning Struts and Rails in the same sentence, though, as Rails did much more than Struts.
- cromulent 3y ago
  I do seem to remember DHH complaining about "XML pushups" when Rails was released, and knowing what he meant from Struts.
- jasonwatkinspdx 3y ago
  MVC dates all the way back to Smalltalk in the early 80s.