From: Joao Pedrosa <joaopedrosa@...>
Date: 2005-03-22T13:32:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Support for 10x Productivity Increase with Rails!

Hi,

On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 13:03:22 +0900, Navindra Umanee
<navindra@cs.mcgill.ca> wrote:
> James Britt <jamesUNDERBARb@neurogami.com> wrote:
> > There's a fine line between promotion and hype, and the Rails hype may
> > be counterproductive.   I can understand why people get enthusiastic,
> > why they want everyone to drink the Rails Kool-Aid; it's great for
> > business and all, and it's arguably good for Ruby, but at times it just
> > comes off as strident dogma, marketecture buzz, or dust-jacket blurbs.
> 
> Yeah.  I have been subject to the Rails hype myself and I have found
> myself naturally resistant to it.
> 
> I have the feeling that Rails is now at the position that Zope was a
> few years ago.  A lot of excitement, craziness and hype until reality
> sets in.
> 
> Anyway, don't get me wrong.  Rails is probably the opposite of Zope in
> many ways, although at the same time it face some of the same issues
> that Zope does...  memory leaks, upgrading pains...  it's all there,
> just read this list.
> 
> Rails is probably worth evaluating, I just haven't really felt the
> need given that I've been very happy with Ruby.

I'm a sinner in trying to promote Rails. Sometimes it may backfire,
mainly when someone only needs an excuse to avoid it. :-)

It may be clumsy trying to evangelize a technology without being an
expert evangelizer. But there is a vacuum between the "show, do not
tell" that needs to be filled with "tell, do not show".

Fortunately, there are enough technical people to "show" how
everything works, through demos, documentation, examples, tutorials
and answering questions.

Cheers,
Joao