20080102 On Zed Shaw rants about Rails and Ruby

What did you expect after this? He is opinionated too, and what’s wrong with that?

20070709 jQuery and Rails (and getting rid of prototype)

My first ajax-y attempts were done with prototype. It all seemed so natural and seamless: prototype came with rails and there were those nice javascript helpers like link_to_remote which generated the javascript code for calling prototype functions. Until you looked at the code! (and the weight of it). I’m not talking about the ruby code [...]

20070515 REST + caching = BOOOM!

I have been doing some RubyOnRails stuff lately, for fun basically. I decided to build my new site (supersole.net) with Rails, and I also decided to use the shiny REST stuff which comes built in with the latest versions of Rails. But I don’t know if it’s just me and my (mis)understanding of how this [...]

20070313 London Ruby Users Group brings you back to uni

After three failed attempts, I managed to go to yesterday’s lrug meeting. It was intended to be a kind of experimental collective code review, so people would contribute with pieces of code and get it dissected and improved collectively. There was an special obsession with Hashes, most of the code submissions were improvements and/or workarounds [...]

20070122 PHP will never have a (real) Rails-like framework

I know the title is harsh but it’s so true. At least it is according to nowadays php’s implementation of classes and objects, which do not permit to “reopen” and add or redefine new methods to an existing class definition, which is the basis upon Rails (and I presume lots more of applications and frameworks) [...]