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How To Run a Stealth Rails Application

28 points by oneplusone 18y ago

nate 18y ago
Ha ha. I loved the part about Webrick and lighttpd coming next :)
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dustineichler 18y ago
That's pretty funny. Django can also do this very easily without the redirect.
- bryanwoods 18y ago
  You can do it easily in Rails without a redirect too, and without regex as used in Django. In routes.rb for example: map.login '/login.php', :controller => 'sessions', :action => 'new' But I suppose that wouldn't make for a very funny April Fool's joke.
petercooper 18y ago
It's telling that so many programming related April Fools jokes have been Ruby oriented in some way. First they ignore you, then they laugh at you... then they fight you, then you win.
- plinkplonk 18y ago
  "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you... then they fight you, then you win." Sometimes they laugh at you and keep laughing ;-) seriously though, it is very tiring that the above quote from Gandhi is being used by the defender of every half assed idea as some kind of validation. (I am not saying that ruby or ROR is half assed). Sometimes things people laugh at are worthy of ridicule. And ruby/ROR has been around a while now, it should have moved to the "then you win" by now (and stayed there).
  - swombat 18y ago
    Well, then I guess I'll make your day with this Lao Tzu quote from the Tao Te King: When the wise man hears the Tao, he practices it When the normal man hears the Tao, he listens to it When the fool hears the Tao, he laughs at it But if if were not laughed at, it would not be the true Tao.
  - petercooper 18y ago
    Depends on your definition of "win." DHH already claimed Rails had gone through all of those stages even back in 2007: http://casperfabricius.com/site/2007/09/18/railsconf2007-dhh/ http://casperfabricius.com/site/2007/09/18/railsconf2007-dhh...
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nessence 18y ago
If this is not a joke, it's funnier than an April Fools hoax.
teej 18y ago
I just wanted to note that Urban Dictionary actually does this.
cschneid 18y ago
This is funny, I actually had to do this. I had a flash app hard coded to look for a particular .php file. It would have been a PITA to get the source for that, so... just figure out what it expects, and Rails route it. This approach is handy to know about.

28 points by oneplusone 18y ago

nate 18y ago

Ha ha. I loved the part about Webrick and lighttpd coming next :)

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dustineichler 18y ago

That's pretty funny. Django can also do this very easily without the redirect.

bryanwoods 18y ago
You can do it easily in Rails without a redirect too, and without regex as used in Django. In routes.rb for example: map.login '/login.php', :controller => 'sessions', :action => 'new' But I suppose that wouldn't make for a very funny April Fool's joke.

petercooper 18y ago

It's telling that so many programming related April Fools jokes have been Ruby oriented in some way. First they ignore you, then they laugh at you... then they fight you, then you win.

plinkplonk 18y ago
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you... then they fight you, then you win." Sometimes they laugh at you and keep laughing ;-) seriously though, it is very tiring that the above quote from Gandhi is being used by the defender of every half assed idea as some kind of validation. (I am not saying that ruby or ROR is half assed). Sometimes things people laugh at are worthy of ridicule. And ruby/ROR has been around a while now, it should have moved to the "then you win" by now (and stayed there).
- swombat 18y ago
  Well, then I guess I'll make your day with this Lao Tzu quote from the Tao Te King: When the wise man hears the Tao, he practices it When the normal man hears the Tao, he listens to it When the fool hears the Tao, he laughs at it But if if were not laughed at, it would not be the true Tao.
- petercooper 18y ago
  Depends on your definition of "win." DHH already claimed Rails had gone through all of those stages even back in 2007: http://casperfabricius.com/site/2007/09/18/railsconf2007-dhh/ http://casperfabricius.com/site/2007/09/18/railsconf2007-dhh...
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nessence 18y ago

If this is not a joke, it's funnier than an April Fools hoax.

teej 18y ago

I just wanted to note that Urban Dictionary actually does this.

cschneid 18y ago

This is funny, I actually had to do this. I had a flash app hard coded to look for a particular .php file. It would have been a PITA to get the source for that, so... just figure out what it expects, and Rails route it. This approach is handy to know about.