[Lift] Re: superficial first impressions from a rails junkie

2010-03-07 Thread cageface
On Mar 6, 5:28 pm, David Pollak feeder.of.the.be...@gmail.com wrote: Back in 2005-2006 Ruby and Rails were not easy to get started with. My first Rails checkins in our VCS are from 2004. I had no trouble at all getting things running back then and don't remember hearing a lot of complaints

[Lift] Re: [lift] superficial first impressions from a rails junkie

2010-03-06 Thread cageface
On Mar 6, 10:06 am, David Pollak feeder.of.the.be...@gmail.com wrote: And where are the bugs in the existing user guide? The only outright bug is that you can't copy paste the second maven invocation and the fix is extremely non-obvious. -- You received this message because you are subscribed

[Lift] Re: superficial first impressions from a rails junkie

2010-03-06 Thread cageface
On Mar 6, 12:05 pm, cody koeninger c...@koeninger.org wrote: How long had that getting started document been broken before it got fixed (assuming it's fixed now)?. It's still broken. To the OP, taking the time to explore lift further is worth it if you're doing i18n / comet or just want to

[Lift] Re: superficial first impressions from a rails junkie

2010-03-06 Thread cageface
On Mar 6, 12:20 pm, Timothy Perrett timo...@getintheloop.eu wrote: Im not sure it is difficult to copy and paste: mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeCatalog=http://scala-tools.org/ Its one line... easy. Im not saying maven does not suck, but this is one the wiki home page people... When I try

[Lift] superficial first impressions from a rails junkie

2010-03-05 Thread cageface
Like many other web developers, I abandoned some heavyweight Java web frameworks about 6 years ago for Rails and have been working pretty much exclusively in Rails ever since. However, I've always had a secret lust for functional languages so when I heard about Scala and Lift I decided to take a