Blog Tag: Ruby On Rails
Mark Responds to DHH
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Mark posted a response to David Heinemeier Hansson's response to the twitter people complaining about rails. Mark's response is totally awesome, and kind of sums up how I was feeling about DHH's post.
I'm frankly a little tired of the Rails people talking about how great they are. I don't have anything against their framework being excellent and the sites people build with them being awesome, just quit going on about how great it is, OK? Humility goes a long way...
OK, benefit of the doubt, people say DHH is very upfront about his faults, but eh... When he's not doing that, he's a little annoying. Maybe they're really humble in person, but it gets lost in text blog entries? Maybe I'm just bitchy because I've never built anything that works in RoR? Maybe I'm mentally challenged?! (Inside joke, sorry.)
On a completely different, yet related, point - When I read the original Twitter Interview about how they have a problem with 11,000 requests per second, I was reminded of Introduction to AOL Part 1, circa 1999.
Are you concerned about your Web site's scalability? I'm pretty sure that as long as I don't get more than 28,000 hits I'll be okay. How can I be sure? That's how many hits that America Online is serving with the open-source Web server that I use: AOLserver. Twenty-eight thousand hits? That's not really so many, is it? One often hears about sites that get more requests than 28,000 per day, per week, or per month. With 17 million subscribers, though, America Online is talking about 28,000 hits per second across all of its various Web services and servers.
Thank you for playing, Rails ;-)
Kases?
In the new 37 Signals application Highrise, (37 signals are the fine people who brought you Basecamp), they have a section for Cases, i.e. like a project or series of tasks - as in "I'm on the case, cheif!".
The url for this is /kases. I did a quick search and found out why the url is /kases. It turns out to be a work around for a language key-word colision in Ruby, which gets exposed in Rails.
Not to be smug (ok, a little...), but I am suddenly quite thankful for the "do it by hand" nature of my current software set-up - build on fusebox for PHP. I feel like posting several new pages on podo, like: /if, /case, /switch, /foreach, etc.
Life on Rails
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In a recent interview on Nightline, Rick Warren said the following. These thoughts are very timely for me:
... God is more interested in your character than your comfort.
God is more interested in making your life holy than He is in making your life happy.
Good reminders for me right now when I have gone through varying levels of comfort the past few months.
I used to think that life was hills and valleys - you go through a dark time, then you go to the mountaintop, back and forth. I don't believe that anymore.
Rather than life being hills and valleys, I believe that it's kind of like two rails on a railroad track, and at all times you have something good and something bad in your life.
Life on Rails? Now we're Getting Real! :-) (Sorry everyone, this is RoR nerd humor.)