Learning from Rails' failures:

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Learning from Rails' failures:

But what’s worse than everything listed so far is that the lack of competition and the internal rewrites made Rails lose its headstart. Rails is very much HTML/view focused, its primarily strength is to make server side views trivial and it does an amazing job at that. But let’s be honest, that’s not the future for web dev. The future is more and more logic pushed to run on the client side (in JS) and the server side being used as an API serving data for the view layer. I’m sorry but adding support for CoffeeScript doesn’t really do much to making Rails evolve ahead of what it currently is. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a big fan of CoffeeScript, that said I still find that Rails is far from being optimized to developer web APIs in Rails. You can certainly do it, but you are basically using a tool that wasn’t designed to write APIs and you pay the overhead for that. If there is ...

Full article: http://merbist.com/2012/02/29/learning-from-rails-failures/

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@iskugor » 22 Mar '12, 12pm
Sounds familiar? [link]
@daz4126 » 17 Mar '12, 6pm
NIce post about some of the problems with Rails. Comments are good too. [link]
@coders_vzla » 17 Mar '12, 11am
Learning from Rails' failures | Merbist [link] @rubyve
@amcloud » 06 Mar '12, 4am
Nice critique of Rails: [link] @merbist
@knsmr » 06 Mar '12, 3am
Merbとの統合は一面でしか成功していない、とか、バージョンアップポリシーを変えるべきとか。GILの話ってMerbではどうなるはずだったんだろう / Learning from Rails' failures | Merbist [link]
@LennieZ » 05 Mar '12, 1pm
Talking about Rails: Learning from failures; [link]
@tomerg » 03 Mar '12, 12am
RT @natishalom: RT @rgaidot: Learning from Rails' failures [link]
@pmolinam » 02 Mar '12, 8pm
Learning from Rails' failures [link] via @rgaidot Good reading!
@natishalom » 02 Mar '12, 8pm
RT @rgaidot: Learning from Rails' failures [link]
@ijonas » 02 Mar '12, 10am
Learning from Rails' failures [link] via @colin_gemmell
@matteofuzz » 02 Mar '12, 8am
C'è del vero, Rails si è ingrassato, è meno agile, è invecchiato; speriamo torni più tonico e giovane con la 4.0... [link]
@mrreynolds » 01 Mar '12, 11pm
@merbist I strongly disagree with "server side views are not the future of web dev." [link]
@cleverswine » 01 Mar '12, 8pm
Very fair criticisms of Rails [link]
@jayson_r » 01 Mar '12, 8pm
RT @niralisse: Shared: Learning from Rails’ failures [link]
@intjonathan » 01 Mar '12, 7pm
Shared: Learning from Rails’ failures [link]
@rsl » 01 Mar '12, 5pm
are they still calling him a rails evangelist? [link]
@arthurgeek » 01 Mar '12, 2pm
"Merb's approach to modularity was to specify what you wanted, Rails is all about removing what you don't need" ~ [link]
@ozmox » 01 Mar '12, 1pm
Thoughts on why the Rails/Merb merge failed to deliver as promised. [link] #rails #merb #ruby
@rponte » 01 Mar '12, 12pm
"The Rails team seems to think that everybody is always running on the cutting edge version [...]" [link]
@mwduncan » 01 Mar '12, 10am
RT @yuki24: Learning from Rails’ failures [link]
@nicktea » 01 Mar '12, 7am
Good read NT ::: Learning from Rails' failures [link]
@raecoo » 01 Mar '12, 6am
Mark “@fredwu: Riiiight. RT @pdlug: "Rails/Merb merge was a mistake" Learning from Rails Failures [link]”
@fredwu » 01 Mar '12, 6am
Riiiight. RT @pdlug: "Rails/Merb merge was a mistake" Learning from Rails Failures [link]
@nesquena » 01 Mar '12, 6am
RT @pdlug: "Rails/Merb merge was a mistake" Learning from Rails Failures [link] yup. I take @padrinorb & @sinatra over rails every time
@mmacros » 01 Mar '12, 3am
RT @ajlopez: Learning from Ruby on Rails’ failures [link]
@hiroshi3110 » 01 Mar '12, 3am
Rails たしかに sexy じゃなくなってますね。 API つくるんだたら、だったらおっしゃるとおり sinatra だし。 [link]
@sanderhahn » 01 Mar '12, 1am
Another article mentioning Sinatra for APIs and overing insight in Rails troubles for upgrading [link]
@cajun_code » 01 Mar '12, 12am
RT @AlanGHecht: @stonean our rails complaints summarized - [link]
@asip2k25 » 01 Mar '12, 12am
RT @hatebuit: Learning from Rails' failures | Merbist [link]
@AlanGHecht » 29 Feb '12, 11pm
@stonean our rails complaints summarized - [link]
@pdlug » 29 Feb '12, 10pm
"Rails/Merb merge was a mistake" Learning from Rails Failures [link] yup. I take @padrinorb & @sinatra over rails every time
@adamkashdan » 29 Feb '12, 9pm
RT @rails_apps: article "Learning from Rails’ failures" by @merbist [link]
@edgar » 29 Feb '12, 9pm
Learning from Rails' failures [link] (via @romanandreg )
@masa_w » 29 Feb '12, 9pm
確かにMerbがRailsとの統合で消えちゃったのは大きな損失。Padrinoがあるからいいけど。 / “Learning from Rails' failures | Merbist” [link]
@webdesignStatio » 29 Feb '12, 9pm
Learning from Rails' failures | Merbist Ruby on Rails undisputedly changed the way web frameworks are designed. Ra... [link]
@rails_apps » 29 Feb '12, 9pm
article "Learning from Rails’ failures" by @merbist [link]
@memphys » 29 Feb '12, 8pm
RT @coagulant: Learning from Rails' failures [link] via @zite
@ajlopez » 29 Feb '12, 8pm
Learning from Ruby on Rails’ failures [link]
@GPad619 » 29 Feb '12, 8pm
RT @steveklabnik: Some good points, though I don't agree 100% “@merbist: Learning from Rails' failures: [link]”
@hkarthik » 29 Feb '12, 6pm
Great post from @merbist on Learning From Rail's Failures. [link]
@super_sid » 29 Feb '12, 5pm
Learning from Rails' failures [link] via @zite
@steveklabnik » 29 Feb '12, 5pm
Some good points, though I don't agree 100% “@merbist: Learning from Rails' failures: [link]”
@b_antunes » 29 Feb '12, 5pm
A lot of Rails dissatisfaction blog posts, lately. All mentioning the "failed" Merb merge [link]
@bsodmike » 29 Feb '12, 5pm
Indeed! "@ryanbigg: ^@merbist comes in with a reasonable argument against Rails' complexity: [link]"
@hmans » 29 Feb '12, 4pm
What's with all the Rails FUD recently? [link] being one of the worse offenders.
@ooscanoo » 29 Feb '12, 4pm
RT @ryanbigg: ^@merbist comes in with a reasonable argument against Rails' complexity: [link]
@Webolized » 29 Feb '12, 4pm
Learning from Rails’ failures [link] #dev #insight #rails
@romanandreg » 29 Feb '12, 4pm
@edgar léete la parte de los APIS "@merbist: Learning from Rails' failures: [link]"
@eleopteryx » 29 Feb '12, 4pm
RT @merbist: Learning from Rails' failures: [link]
@hmartz » 29 Feb '12, 4pm
RT @merbist: Learning from Rails' failures: [link]

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