Re:Ruby on Rails and the importance of being stupid
by knowtheory on Monday May 18, 2009 @10:58PM
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Yeah, okay, but this article should be titled "Virtualization and the importance of being stupid"
This has next to nothing to do with Ruby or Rails. He's right on the count that you should go with the options that work, but the key lesson here isn't that mongrels don't work, it's that shared hosting sucks for their purposes.
Also, ActiveRecord isn't a replacement for SQL. It is a convenience layer on top of SQL. I love my ORMs (and i've enthusiastically moved to DataMapper), but guess what i was doing today? Yep, that's right, i was writing SQL :P
This has next to nothing to do with Ruby or Rails. He's right on the count that you should go with the options that work, but the key lesson here isn't that mongrels don't work, it's that shared hosting sucks for their purposes.
Also, ActiveRecord isn't a replacement for SQL. It is a convenience layer on top of SQL. I love my ORMs (and i've enthusiastically moved to DataMapper), but guess what i was doing today? Yep, that's right, i was writing SQL :P