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Any Ruby/Rails people here?

Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 12:55 am
by Kieran Huggins
Just curious... hope I'm not blaspheming, this is a PHP forum after all!

Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 2:25 am
by Christopher
I have done a couple of projects using RoR. I generally liked it, but found the RAD benefits spotty. That may be because I don't like generator style frameworks, and have the same opinion of the several PHP frameworks that attempt to do the same thing.

Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 2:32 am
by onion2k
I'm in a similar boat to Arborint - I've used the Ruby language (which is really rather nice) but I don't like the Rails framework.

Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 11:22 am
by RobertGonzalez
I want to, just don't have the time to dedicate to picking up a new language at the moment. It is on my list along with Python.

Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 12:51 pm
by Christopher
If I may rant a little ... were Ruby and Python separated a birth!?! They are like two religions separated only by two different flavors of kool-aid (Tab and 'end'!).

They are feature-wise obviously the future. Why the hell doesn't someone just take the best from Ruby and Python and add braces to make it normal!. Then port the best from the Java and PHP libraries and we would all be done.

Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 5:52 pm
by Charles256
: adds arborint's suggestion to his list of " to-do's " right below world domination :

Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 4:56 am
by Kieran Huggins
My next language will be Lisp... now there's a religion!

Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 5:24 am
by vigge89
Kieran Huggins wrote:My next language will be Lisp... now there's a religion!
Heh, http://xkcd.com/297/
Many have probably seen xkcd as it's being linked to everywhere, but why not add one more link to the stash :)

Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 6:28 am
by superdezign
vigge89 wrote:Heh, http://xkcd.com/297/
Many have probably seen xkcd as it's being linked to everywhere, but why not add one more link to the stash :)
I'm pretty sure Kieran's already posted that comic. :P

Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 7:58 am
by Kieran Huggins
lol - guilty!

Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 11:48 am
by Christopher
Kieran Huggins wrote:My next language will be Lisp... now there's a religion!
Lisp has had it chance about twenty times. Even the likes of Martin Fowler couldn't make it popular and moved to Java and now Ruby. Fowler's love of Ruby makes Ruby suspect based on his Lisp history.

But honestly, Ruby and Python are soooo much alike -- it is really weird. I am sure it cuts into their popularity They are both great languages, but just not enough like C/C++. My comment had a grain of sincerity to it. If you merged the languages, changed 'def' to 'function' and used braces instead of Tab or end -- I think that derived language would probably take over. It is essentially where both PHP and Java are currently headed.

I don't know how many here are familiar with both Python or Ruby, but here is a side-by-side comparison to show what I am talking about:

http://www.dmh2000.com/cjpr/cmpframe.html

Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 2:01 pm
by vigge89
Kieran Huggins wrote:lol - guilty!
I knew I've seen xkcd being linked to here, but couldn't recall that specific comic being posted. Science damn it! :D

Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 12:49 am
by anjanesh
Check this out from slashdot.

Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 1:37 am
by mrkite
I like Ruby on Rails.. I like Ruby as a language and use it for commandline scripts more and more often.

I hate how difficult it is to deploy RoR though. I don't want to run a special web server and do port redirects. I don't like how RoR is pretty much 1 program per domain.

Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 2:42 am
by Luke
Once I'm done learning python / django, I'll move on to ruby / rails. :)