Just dropping a one-liner to say: I'm still alive, and I still hate Ruby and Rails.
I freaking hate Ruby
Just dropping a one-liner to say: I'm still alive, and I still hate Ruby and Rails.
I saw some idiot's post the other day complaining about how long it takes Sun to release major versions of Java. Are you kidding me??? Ruby is only up to 1.9 - at it was first released in 1995, the same year as Java. Java is up to version 6, about to enter version 7. Even Python, which was first rel…
It's been a while (mainly because I've been blessed with work in Java instead of Ruby), but I've got a new issue today. My boss instructed me to upgrade our Rails application to use the new version of Soap4R. Doing a little Google search led to this site which shows how to install the new version.
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Looking at a post on http://nathan.crause.name on using RSpec for XML-RPC within Rails, we see another example of why Ruby can suck a fat one. This isn't the first instance I've ever seen of a process just magically stopping under Ruby. No obvious crash, no exception thrown, no results returned. Jus…
I've tried to like Ruby. I've really tried. But no matter how much I might enjoy the little benefits the dynamic nature of the language affords, I simply cannot escape the frustration I feel every single day I use it. Mystic error messages. Automagic embedded deep inside frameworks spontaneously fai…
Not everyone gets sucked into the hype of Ruby and Rails - here's some bashers, and some with very valid points.