From: David Heinemeier Hansson <david@...>
Date: 2004-07-26T05:46:27+09:00
Subject: Re: rubyonrails and cgikit comparison

> Disclaimer: I really didn't intend to bash rails, so if anyone gets an
> impression I DID bash it, I apologize.  IMHO rails got a bit overhyped
> (sorry, but I don't care it is a 1KLOC framework - I could decrease the
> size of any of my libraries, but at cost of code quality. I rather 
> chose
> to avoid eval and other evil constructs instead) and I just wanted to
> point out there are other solutions at least as powerful and elegant as
> rails.

Now that it's out, it's actually a 2-KLOC framework :). And while I 
don't care much for neither the implication that the code quality of 
Rails suffers due its humble size (or use of evals) nor that it owes 
all attention to the fact, I do welcome the notion that there are other 
powerful and/or elegant frameworks out there. Only a fool would dispute 
that.

But then again, one man's elegance is another's clumsiness. And there's 
obviously a difference of vision (re: "the perfect MVC framework should 
have pure HTML templates"). Each his own. The more the merrier. And all 
that.
--
David Heinemeier Hansson,
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