I freaking hate Ruby
Another real-world example of Ruby and Rails sucking - check out these 2 lines in a Markaby file:
text command.description
unless session[:criteria_errors].nil? && !command.promo_applied
unless session[:criteria_errors][command.id].nil?
# ...
Explain to me how we get this …
A colleague of mine pointed out that this site may just be considered to be a troll site. Here's the thing - every blog post I've used to give real actual examples of how both Ruby sucks and the Ruby on Rails frameworks suck. I haven't just said "Ruby sucks ass" and left it there. That's a troll sit…
So this is fun - found another thing about Ruby that I find completely screws up a fairly basic principle of object-oriented design.
The whole point of access level control is to explicitly prevent access to certain methods under certain conditions, thereby allowing you to refactor your classes to p…
So I thought I'd post my own response to Obie Fernandez's stupid-ass rant about how Ruby is better than Java on a point-by-point basis:
So, new gripe today. Running a RoR application - all the logging and such turned on - process runs, updates the database, etc., etc., but returns error 500 at the very end. But only for this one controller + action (so don't tell me it's a "server configuration error").
And here's the thing - no err…
Not everyone gets sucked into the hype of Ruby and Rails - here's some bashers, and some with very valid points.