Rails is a Ghetto... [NSFW for Language]

Re:Rails is a Ghetto... [NSFW for Language] by nonrecursive on Monday December 31, 2007 @05:20PM (#93993)

If the main people who control the direction of the framework which you use to make your living were acting in a shady way wouldn't YOU be interested? It's not just "personal dirty laundry" in that what the people he's talking about do, how they work, affects a lot of people.

Also, it's not just "some guy." Zed Shaw wrote Mongrel, which virtually every Ruby on Rails project uses. Without him, Rails development would likely still be a huge pain in the ass.

BTW, you should read his essay on statistics; it provides a good starting point for figuring out how to analyze the performance of your sites.

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Re:Rails is a Ghetto... [NSFW for Language] by pius on Monday December 31, 2007 @05:36PM (#93994)

Yeah, that statistics essay is awesome. My favorite essay of his, though, is how he uses finite state machines to implement protocols. It's pretty badass.

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Re:Rails is a Ghetto... [NSFW for Language] by tptacek on Tuesday January 01, 2008 @02:38PM (#94172)

You mean, like every intrusion detection system ever built?

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Re:Rails is a Ghetto... [NSFW for Language] by pius on Tuesday January 01, 2008 @02:53PM (#94174)

Your point?

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Re:Rails is a Ghetto... [NSFW for Language] by tptacek on Thursday January 03, 2008 @08:40PM (#94693)

Parsing protocols with parser generators is not an original idea, despite the fact that it's one of the top 3 value propositions Zed Shaw has for Mongrel.

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