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   by granderson 19y ago

   1) I highly recommend Agile Web Development with Ruby on Rails. I also recommend the Pick Axe (Pragmatic Programmers Ruby book). I do not recommend Ruby for Rails. I bought it and skimmed it to realize I already knew everything in it aft
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   by granderson 19y ago

   the parent post is dead on. the guy who wrote the article does not know rails well enough to find accurate criticisms. the complaint he makes about the options hashes would be solved if someone took the time to document all of the private
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   by granderson 19y ago

   I have thought about this for a few days and have concluded that it's a massive publicity stunt on Zed's part. Think about how so many people get famous -- by creating controversy. Zed has done a great job (in terms of entertaining us)...
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   by granderson 19y ago

   Zed is a talented developer and a committed open source contributor. It seems that some of the negative aspects of the community got to him and he sort of snapped... But I suppose if you're the kind of cat who keeps IRC logs in anticipati