On 10/31/06, Patrick Crowley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
- Seems like about half the group is just learning Rails. What do you guys need? Is there anything you're stuck on? Might be cool to turn one of the presentations into a Rails "catchup" talk... where the more hard-core people could talk about ways to get started.
This sounds like a bloody wonderful idea to me. Rails is something I do in my spare time outside of school and hustling for cheddar and I have no freakin' idea what's going in edge rails. A diff between Rails as discussed in the first edition of the official Rails book by DHH and Dave Thomas and edge Rails/stuff that's currently being blogged about would be nice, for instance. Other ideas/examples: There's lots of stuff that's now deprecated or not considered idiomatic. Stuff on working with multiple databases and other non-cookie cutter but probable development setups; stories of successfully convincing pointy-haired bosses to take a chance on technology that doesn't come from the bowels of a Fortune 100 corporation and/or putting to rest unreasonable ideas about Ruby's speed being a problem and not scaling when Rails is share-nothing a la PHP and the database is more likely to be the bottleneck. I think stuff like that would be great. Furthermore, questions about Rails culture: why does DHH have to be so confrontational in his presentations? Why can't he ever just say "here's the code we wrote recently, here's how it can help you, make of it what you will because we released it under a very liberal free license?" Why does he preach to the converted and why is he fond of presentation slides with jarring colors and nothing but a cryptic phrase that is absolutely useless for understanding what he's talking about - is he trying to cultivate some silly cult of personality? When is ActiveRecord going to be refactored to not be isomorphic to a bad C preprocessor hack? Warren _______________________________________________ Sdruby mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sdruby.com/mailman/listinfo/sdruby
