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I still believe you may not understand the difference between a language and a framework.

• tedunangst 14y ago
  The distinction is rather academic with ruby and rails. 90% of the answers to "how do I do this in ruby" on forums are actually "how to do this with rails" answers, but they never mention that little detail, because who'd ever write a ruby program without rails, right? Trying to find straight ruby answers is annoying as hell.
  • chimeracoder 14y ago
    I've had frustrations with certain "ruby" libraries requiring methods like "blank?" (IIRC) that are provided only via Rails, not Ruby. It made developing on a machine that Ruby but not rails rather annoying.
  • Turing_Machine 14y ago
    "The distinction is rather academic with ruby and rails." No, it isn't. "90% of the answers to "how do I do this in ruby" on forums are actually "how to do this with rails" answers" You're looking in the wrong places. "who'd ever write a ruby program without rails, right?" People who are writing shell scripts? People who are using Sinatra? People who are writing desktop Ruby programs?