jeremymcanally

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by jeremymcanally 17y ago
It's not that Rails culture makes GUI's the end product, it's that it's the necessity of the product. It's a web framework, not a database GUI. You could build a database GUI in Rails easily enough, but you're still using a database GUI
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by jeremymcanally 17y ago
Yeah, none of this is really pertinent anymore. It was actually fairly ignorant at the time, except for the documentation part, which has been fixed. But, hey, it got someone some upvotes, right? That's all that really matters.
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by jeremymcanally 18y ago
The difference in how values are treated alone is enough to quintuple the test cases. :)
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by jeremymcanally 18y ago
Perhaps they should add RubySpec then come back with those numbers. IIRC, there's somewhere in the neighborhood of 50,000 assertions in there and growing everyday. Unlike Perl, Ruby has elected to make these specs an open community process
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by jeremymcanally 18y ago
If you don't know what kind of object you're receiving and how it behaves, then there's something far worse going on than a runtime check. Even if you do those checks temporarily, I don't think they should remain there, especially in produc
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by jeremymcanally 18y ago
Ironically, the current version of Ruby (that is, 1.9.1) is faster than PHP by a good bit. So, actually they're re-implementing it in a faster language.
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by jeremymcanally 18y ago
No it's not and it works quite well.
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by jeremymcanally 18y ago
Fun? Personal brand? I mean, I make more than enough to get by on but I still promote my book every change I get. :)
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by jeremymcanally 18y ago
The American one doesn't have these issues it seems. That's odd.
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by jeremymcanally 18y ago
I'm not defending the post, but countering your points. If my points happen to line up with his opinions, then that's merely coincidence. There are a lot of MQ options out there, many of which I've used with great success (with Ruby no
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by jeremymcanally 18y ago
(1) I think the rub isn't so much that they're bashing Ruby as it seems like rather than evaluating all their options, they just jumped ship to some random unproven technology for whatever reason. They then turn around and say "well we swi
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by jeremymcanally 18y ago
Especially since those are just static HTML files.