I've been using Rails since 2004 and still love it. I understand a lot of the complaints about Rails and may have occasionally voiced my dislike as well. However, the complaints I often hear about Rails has more to do with the kind of coders/people the framework seems to attract than the actual framework itself. By itself, Rails is an easy to use MVC framework which can help you get a website running quickly. It's well-designed and modular. It's built on top of a great language, Ruby.
Really, Rails is just like any other tool. In the hands of a third-grader, a pen can create a a bona fide mess. In the hands of an artist, it can create something inspiring. On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 5:33 PM, Julian Leviston <[email protected]>wrote: > > On 03/05/2013, at 12:09 AM, Matt Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Thursday, 2 May 2013 05:19:17 UTC-4, Bigos wrote: >> >> I hate Rails sometimes. Now and then I have a feeling that using Rails is >> like trying to fit a square peg in a round hole. For example Active record >> doesn't fit my every need and sometimes I have to use SQL. Because I use >> Rails I have lost much of my SQL skills. Last time I had some unusual >> problem it took me 6 hours to write a query. It seems that I modify >> problems to fit them into Rails instead of modifying Rails to adapt it to >> my problems. >> >> > Similarly, I've found that using C has really weakened my assembler > skills. (trollface) > > --Matt Jones > > > Hehe. > > It's not Rails that's a problem here, per-se, it's ORMs that the OP seems > to have a problem with - shaping his application architecture choices. > Maybe he should be using MagLev and therefore Gemstone ;-) > > I agree that ORMs tend to make you think un-object-orientedly sometimes... > but usually they can be worked around, and they provide a good pragmatic > "best fit" for most uses. It's pretty darn good for free! > > Julian > > -- > 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. > > > -- 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.
