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.
F…
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…
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.