tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24599054.post6056757119268015151..comments2024-02-07T00:23:34.835-07:00Comments on On Ruby: March Blogging Contestgnupatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10492341480170667775noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24599054.post-82543580069284464502007-04-09T10:37:00.000-07:002007-04-09T10:37:00.000-07:00Any word on when the results will be in for the Ma...Any word on when the results will be in for the March contest?Seanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11827793626415319717noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24599054.post-33226783903450283692007-03-31T20:33:00.000-07:002007-03-31T20:33:00.000-07:00Here it is! Just under the wire. Oh, how I hope ...Here it is! Just under the wire. Oh, how I hope you're at least in the Eastern Time Zone.<BR/><BR/>http://www.seanhussey.com/2007/4/1/what-rails-can-learn-from-other-frameworksSeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11827793626415319717noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24599054.post-37545336108243022072007-03-31T17:47:00.000-07:002007-03-31T17:47:00.000-07:00FINALLY got around to hasing out my thoughts: http...FINALLY got around to hasing out my thoughts: http://rubyinpractice.com/2007/4/1/transference-of-knowledge-and-railsMr. Neighborlyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02063939073935274480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24599054.post-78915142957735097222007-03-31T11:51:00.000-07:002007-03-31T11:51:00.000-07:00"Rails has never been about inviting suggestions, ..."Rails has never been about inviting suggestions, we'd prefer patches :)"<BR/><BR/>patches which we are notorius for not applying for months! hahaha jokes on you!<BR/><BR/>But seriously, it is distressing to see that "rails core" is treating rails as a corporate brand and are very eager to defend the carefully marketed assumption that "Ruby on Rails"(TM) is pretty much un-assailable.<BR/><BR/>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24599054.post-85930521365404159262007-03-31T11:11:00.000-07:002007-03-31T11:11:00.000-07:00It turns out that I have more to say on this topic...It turns out that I have more to say on this topic. I was originally going to write about the modular applications feature in Django, but after a little digging I found that I could get the same thing in Rails using the Engines plugin. I wrote up my experiences here:<BR/><BR/>http://fiatdev.com/articles/2007/03/31/implementing-djangos-modular-apps-feature-in-railsPhil Tolandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12170083727518179823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24599054.post-17805482100298094392007-03-30T21:50:00.000-07:002007-03-30T21:50:00.000-07:00I am surprised that there has been so little feedb...I am surprised that there has been so little feedback on this topic. Oh, well. Here is my 2c. There are several things that I would like to see Rails adopt from other frameworks, the first being better object caching in ActiveRecord a la Hibernate. <BR/><BR/>http://fiatdev.com/articles/2007/03/30/object-caching-in-railsPhil Tolandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12170083727518179823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24599054.post-18867765590240681322007-03-29T21:13:00.000-07:002007-03-29T21:13:00.000-07:00I must say this was a tough question to answer bec...I must say this was a tough question to answer because there is so much that ROR does right when it comes to the agile development process. <BR/><BR/>There is only one feature that I have found in ASP.NET that I really wish ROR had and it is more of a syntactic sugar issue. I prefer when I am writing code that I can keep to a syntax that has the same look and feel as the code that surrounds Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13824297964134653202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24599054.post-88659561894663063752007-03-27T19:20:00.000-07:002007-03-27T19:20:00.000-07:00If Rails could learn do make everything easier...n...If Rails could learn do make everything easier...<BR/>not <EM>only</EM> development.<BR/>Easier installations... 1-click even! MySQL or PostgreSQL should be installed with it at the same time.<BR/>Deployment should also be easier. That means on any server: Apache, Lighttpd, Mongrel, even (shudder) IIS<BR/>Needs to learn how to play right with FCGIAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24599054.post-48778675347300586362007-03-23T12:38:00.000-07:002007-03-23T12:38:00.000-07:00I don't really have a public blog, but noting the ...I don't really have a public blog, but noting the lack of entries in this contest, I'll jot down my thoughts herein.<BR/><BR/>The single biggest obstacle to rails' success at the moment is the difficulty in deploying the applications. PHP webapps are flawed for so many reasons, but installing them is typically dead easy; untar the archive under your mount point and go. Java webapps have it even Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11053946712539239037noreply@blogger.com