DHH answers: What makes Rails a framework worth learning in 2017?

Re:DHH answers: What makes Rails a framework worth learning ... by ooqr on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @07:30PM (#13477248)

I've actually run into methods defined from names concatenated from multiple strings, i.e. methods you can't even use grep over the whole codebase to find. This has left me with a lingering vague fear ever since.

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Re:DHH answers: What makes Rails a framework worth learning ... by bitwize on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @09:50PM (#13478034)

I've seen worse.

A system that would load chunks of code out of MySQL and eval them in place.

Magic variables with magic meanings... shudder

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Re:DHH answers: What makes Rails a framework worth learning ... by kazinator on Thursday January 26, 2017 @12:33AM (#13489010)

Sounds like the coder was might have been imitating the idea of SQL stored procedures.

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Re:DHH answers: What makes Rails a framework worth learning ... by bitwize on Thursday January 26, 2017 @08:26AM (#13491080)

Actually he was imitating Lotus Notes...

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