On Oct 6, 2006, at 6:04 PM, Giles Bowkett wrote:
> It's all about MVC and making everything obvious automatic. Rails sets
> up models, views, and controllers in such a way that putting things in
> the right place is very intuitive. Good, clean application structure
> is very easy to maintain, and anything a million web developers have
> had to do before is almost entirely automated.
...
Interesting video: Mac using TextMate and the Apache server built
into the standard releases. I'm wondering if the Ruby community is a
bit more Mac-y than others might be.
As cool as Ruby is, and as well as they've chosen the sweet-spot, I'm
wondering if Rails is almost language-agnostic. I'm hearing other
language folks are catching up: Grails for Groovy, TurboGears for
Python, Sails for Java.
So is it Ruby/JRuby .. or is it that the Ruby folks simply built a
great framework, but not one particularly demanding Ruby per se, but
simply the delightful reduction in grief their framework came up
with. Both are creative, but the winner may simply have been the
framework.
That said, its also likely the Ruby mind-set that produced the
framework, one that would be hard to think about in other languages.
This certainly makes clear why Sun hired the Ruby folks over Groovy
or Jython: "Its the server, stupid" .. as Sun would say!
I'm impressed!
-- Owen
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