I am no fan of it.. I've been stranded in it for over a year now and i still loath it. I have to stay because the job looks like crud on my CV, and when people ask me what i've doing i have to say Rails. Then the interview switches to developing in Rails, and i can see a whole new world of joy ;)
Why i hate the framework for two reasons... 1 it touts ease and people say (all over) that they can create apps in hours. The language is in no way easier than c++ or java. The logic and math is the same.. Setting things up to scale is no easier. To be honest many things are significantly harder than java and c++.. At least when you want you want to make things really perform. Which brings me to the second bit of reason 1. The apps that get built in an hour, only amaze people who have no idea what programming is. Why this makes me not like it? Because my bosses, and their clients hear the bit about easy, and fast and budget according to this. I have to fight with each new feature. The second reason that i dislike the framework is because it lowers the bar too much. So much so that samples one finds when learning the framework, they are often shown code that is bad in so many ways it hurts my brain to think of it... But then the same people who produced the samples say "well its just one way to do it". The low entry breads lazy coders.. And they stay ignorant. Ok. So now i sound like a real hater.. Here's the good of it. For small low volume sites rails can get the job done. Rails sits on ruby, and ruby sits on c. All the power one needs can be found. -- 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
