Running GitHub on Rails 6.0

Re:Running GitHub on Rails 6.0 by t0mbstone on Monday September 09, 2019 @05:22PM (#20922606)

I used Rails for 4 years, then Django for 2 years, then back to Rails (now for another year).

Programming with Ruby and Rails is like a breath of fresh air compared to Django. Working with Django was just so painful and awkward (especially if you are trying to write tests for things). I used to have a laundry list of a couple of pages worth of things that I hated about Python and Django when compared to Ruby and Rails, but I can't seem to find it right now.

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Re:Running GitHub on Rails 6.0 by bureaucrat on Monday September 09, 2019 @07:05PM (#20923476)

Can you elaborate on that? These Ruby praises makes me want to know more as I know only Django.

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Re:Running GitHub on Rails 6.0 by cutler on Monday September 09, 2019 @09:41PM (#20924396)

Ruby has unconstrained lambdas for a start and a much more composable, expressive syntax facilitating the creation of elegant DSLs. Rails, Chef and other Ruby projects lean on this feature. The goals of Ruby's creator, Matz, were more idealistic and artistic than those of Python's creator, Guido, whose values are more pragmatic and math-focused. Matz took inspiration from Perl, Smalltalk and Lisp whereas Guido set out to solve a much more local, project-based problem when he created Python.

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Re:Running GitHub on Rails 6.0 by airstrike on Monday September 09, 2019 @07:45PM (#20923750)

Availability bias. The Django praises are all in the Django threads. This is a Ruby thread after all ;-)

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