Rob Nichols wrote: > Is Rails moving to a pure RESTful design? I don't like REST but love > Rails. I'd hate to think that as Rails develops it will become more > difficult to use it RESTlessly. > > > As a RESTless Luddite I hope that Rails doesn't become REST only.
Rob, count me in RESTless club. Rails is a beautiful thing but it is not perfect. DHH is a brilliant guy, and probably is smart enough that he "just doesn't get why some people don't get it". Be that as it may, I'm willing to take what I do know and understand about Rails and continue to use it for fun and profit. I don't feel the need to "force myself" to do it the way the cool kids do. The "old way" of doing Rails works much better than anything else I've tried, and happily, so far at least, they haven't done anything to reduce the ease with which us Luddites can use it that way. For me, REST is a lot like Calculus. I had to learn it (sort of) to get my degree. I know it can do powerful things in the right hands, and yet somehow I've managed to get promotion after promotion, decade after decade...never having used it once as an Engineer. Rob, let the cool kids and the "I'm smart enough to get it" crowd continue to belittle us for not using REST. Let's just get the show on the road and keep cranking out cool apps by the dozen that work well despite being RESTless. I'm still getting better at Rails with each successive app, despite not forcing myself to "do it the right way". I can be successful without being "right". cheers, jp -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
