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Really like Michael's clear writing style (remember reading Railsspace back in 07). Thx for this new resource. Also like the fact that he doesn't use many gems
by christofd 17y ago
Really like Michael's clear writing style (remember reading Railsspace back in 07). Thx for this new resource.
Also like the fact that he doesn't use many gems, but discusses building stuff from scratch (regarding Railsspace book).
- mhartl 17y agoThanks! Ruby on Rails Tutorial follows the same basic philosophy as RailsSpace, including its treatment of gems. See, e.g., my comment at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=986514 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=986514.
- christofd 17y agoe.g. I fondly recall the use of the 'Haversine formula' (calc. distance on a sphere with given lat, lng) built in SQL, instead of using one of the available Geo ruby libraries/ gems (although I'm not sure, if those gems were available back in 07).
- mhartl 17y agoDude, I would totally use a library today! But it was fun busting out a little spherical trigonometry for a Rails book. :-)