Today's Email Incident

Re:Today's Email Incident by larrywright on Tuesday March 19, 2013 @10:08PM (#5405149)

I love Sinatra, but there's a long-running joke that if you look at the source for any Sinatra application with even a little complexity, you'll find a half-baked re-implementation of Rails inside. I've built apps like that and it's definitely not an exaggeration.

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Re:Today's Email Incident by mhartl on Tuesday March 19, 2013 @11:06PM (#5405355)

Ah, so following Greenspun's tenth rule [1], perhaps we have this:

  Any sufficiently complicated web application contains 
  an ad hoc, informally specified, bug-ridden, slow 
  implementation of half of Ruby on Rails.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule

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Re:Today's Email Incident by jaggederest on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @12:31AM (#5405647)

That was my road to Ruby: Developing in PHP "mvc" frameworks. Even had a PHP active record implementation. Create function was used heavily ...

http://php.net/manual/en/function.create-function.php

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Re:Today's Email Incident by larrywright on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @02:11PM (#5409049)

That's probably almost the exact quote I saw :)

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Re:Today's Email Incident by Argorak on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @04:24AM (#5406132)

Yep, especially as there are sinatra stacks that already do that for you in a sane fashion, e.g. Padrino.

Also: yes, building from minimal makes you appreciate the work that big frameworks have already done.

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