Posted by tobi — 05:56 PM Jul 24
I have been there almost from the start and boy what a ride it has been.
It has not only attracted thousands of developers and, more importantly, the top percent of the programming community—it also leaked its methodology everywhere. There is no web framework which has seen active development in the last year which didn’t incorporate at least some of rails concepts.
Today we expect full stack frameworks, resent xml sitpups, demand aesthetically pleasing code and prefer code generators over one size fits all framework solutions. We don’t code things anymore which the framework already knows about. We don’t repeat ourselves anymore.
I believe that Rails has fundamentally redirected the direction code by developers for developers was going. Less is more. Make something beautiful. Use the right half of your brain. I feel a lot better about my profession’s future now then I did a year ago. Thanks Rails and especially thank you david for making it !
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bleh 25 Jul 02:05
“It has not only attracted thousands of developers and, more importantly, the top percent of the programming community” -> just keep in mind that there’s more to programming than just web programming. Rails does very very little for embedded system devels, to name one obvious example.
tobi 25 Jul 05:55
Thats true, the topic of this blog is web programming.
However web programming is a good indicator of where the other programming is headed these days.
David Jones 30 Jul 01:33
Yay for Rails! Happy Birthday!!
Travis Vocino 01 Aug 14:48
Woo!
jo 19 Aug 11:48
great app!
Cyphase 21 Sep 23:27
Happy Birthday!
Cyphase 21 Sep 23:27
(I just wanted to try out the AJAX comments :) )
Responding to comment 1 24 Sep 01:13
You are right, however RAILS is a web framework! Ruby itself is very capable in embedded systems and more to come soon. I have a feeling with the popularity of Rails, Ruby is going to get bigger in the coming years in the US. I don’t see why it wouldn’t, it truly is a great framework, you never know but I have a feeling a good framework for standalone applications will be made!