UPDATE: See the comment below. Huw from Sapphire Steel agrees. Ruby in Steel no longer has the same evaluation experience.
I’ve always been interested in Ruby on Rails development. The rapid adoption and growth of Ruby as a language and Rails as a framework has been inspiring. Unfortunately, it has yet to grow beyond the ranks [...]
Category Archives: Ruby on Rails
Death by Dialog Box
Maybe Twitter Should Have Used Castle?
This interview with Alex Payne of Twitter is an interesting read. Question number 2 is the most striking:
“All the convenience methods and syntactical sugar that makes Rails such a pleasure for coders ends up being absolutely punishing, performance-wise. Once you hit a certain threshold of traffic, either you need to strip out all the costly [...]
ASP.Net on Rails
Great programmers have an uncanny knack for overcomplicating things. In my career I’ve started countless hobby applications only to stop 30% in because I’ve gotten mired in nitty-gritty details and came down with a horrible case of frameworkitis. Part of the problem is that writing frameworks is challenging, fulfilling work. However, it often takes longer to [...]