Ask HN: What became of Steve Yegge's "Rhino on Rails"?

Posted by btucker on Saturday February 06, 2010 @01:51PM
from the ask-hn dept.

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/06/rhino-on-rails.html

I just remembered about this and can't find any recent info besides Yegge calling it "a transitional thing"[1] in '08. It made a big splash after he announcement at FooCamp '07. Is it actually in use within Google? Has it or will it ever be released? Anyone know anything?

[1] http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/06/rhinos-and-tigers.html

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Re:Ask HN: What became of Steve Yegge's "Rhino on Rails"? by litewulf on Saturday February 06, 2010 @03:12PM (#1106583)

I use it. I'm working on open sourcing it.

I kind of worry that the timing for open sourcing it now isn't the greatest, since with the advent of all sorts of commonjs bits, people probably already have their own frameworks. Also, the implementation lags behind what Rails looks like now, so its a bit... weird.

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Re:Ask HN: What became of Steve Yegge's "Rhino on Rails"? by dchest on Saturday February 06, 2010 @03:31PM (#1106610)

Don't worry about the timing; people are always looking for better software, better programming languages, and better frameworks.

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Re:Ask HN: What became of Steve Yegge's "Rhino on Rails"? by Tichy on Sunday February 07, 2010 @07:26AM (#1107598)

Opening it up might speed up development, to catch up with Rails?

I don't think there are any killer web frameworks for JavaScript yet?

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Re:Ask HN: What became of Steve Yegge's "Rhino on Rails"? by capablanca on Saturday February 06, 2010 @02:53PM (#1106570)

What became of Steve Yegge?

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Re:Ask HN: What became of Steve Yegge's "Rhino on Rails"? by Confusion on Saturday February 06, 2010 @04:31PM (#1106704)

He's at Google and recently announced their new static analysis framework for Python: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1054036

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Re:Ask HN: What became of Steve Yegge's "Rhino on Rails"? by capablanca on Tuesday February 09, 2010 @07:51PM (#1113863)

Sure... but I wish I could still read him sometimes. There is no blogger I enjoy to read these days (mostly they are too techinical...)

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Re:Ask HN: What became of Steve Yegge's "Rhino on Rails"? by zyb09 on Saturday February 06, 2010 @03:07PM (#1106578)

I heard he's stuck in a fish tank, swimming along the edges of the glass to find a way out.

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Re:Ask HN: What became of Steve Yegge's "Rhino on Rails"? by cmallen on Saturday February 06, 2010 @04:02PM (#1106656)

Could someone please explain this (joke?) to me?

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Re:Ask HN: What became of Steve Yegge's "Rhino on Rails"? by ricardo on Saturday February 06, 2010 @05:16PM (#1106776)

It's a reference to this blog post: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/10/programmers-view-of-...

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Re:Ask HN: What became of Steve Yegge's "Rhino on Rails"? by Quarrelsome on Saturday February 06, 2010 @04:10PM (#1106668)

It's something he used to notice his goldfish doing before it died of loneliness, apparently.

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Re:Ask HN: What became of Steve Yegge's "Rhino on Rails"? by yannis on Sunday February 07, 2010 @01:32AM (#1107360)

It's a sad story and very well written.

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Re:Ask HN: What became of Steve Yegge's "Rhino on Rails"? by tlrobinson on Saturday February 06, 2010 @03:16PM (#1106592)

Note there's also ActiveJS: http://activerecordjs.org/

I'm not sure if it's being actively maintained though.

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Re:Ask HN: What became of Steve Yegge's "Rhino on Rails"? by kmt on Saturday February 06, 2010 @04:26PM (#1106695)

And how about node.js on rails? Anyone working on it? Maybe with MongoDB backend? It looks like a convenient fit to me.

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Re:Ask HN: What became of Steve Yegge's "Rhino on Rails"? by Tichy on Saturday February 06, 2010 @05:54PM (#1106842)

Now I have to ask, what exactly makes a framework a rails framework?

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Re:Ask HN: What became of Steve Yegge's "Rhino on Rails"? by jrockway on Saturday February 06, 2010 @06:38PM (#1106912)

If the default "it works" page has rounded corners and no text smaller than 32pt, it's a rails framework.

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Re:Ask HN: What became of Steve Yegge's "Rhino on Rails"? by steveklabnik on Saturday February 06, 2010 @06:40PM (#1106915)

If I had to come up with a definition, it would be "Full stack web framework with sensible defaults, that emphasizes DRY and COC." As always, any time you reduce something, it's lossy...

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Re:Ask HN: What became of Steve Yegge's "Rhino on Rails"? by kmt on Sunday February 07, 2010 @12:53AM (#1107330)

I think you got two good answers. They aren't even conflicting, just presenting the two sides of the coin.

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Re:Ask HN: What became of Steve Yegge's "Rhino on Rails"? by flashgordon on Sunday February 07, 2010 @07:44PM (#1108591)

actually what became of Steve Yegge?

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