From: John Joyce Date: 2007-09-26T12:36:15+09:00 Subject: Re: Recent Criticism about Ruby (Scalability, etc.) On Sep 25, 2007, at 7:28 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: > Chad Perrin wrote: >> I had a forehead-smacking moment while reading that, where I realized >> that *of course* it's true that after two years of not getting >> anything >> substantially right, there's obviously something else wrong besides >> choosing the wrong tool (if it's wrong for that purpose at all, which >> does not appear to be a settled matter from where I'm sitting). >> >> Hell, two years should be enough time to get something working in >> COBOL, >> let alone Rails. > > I don't think it was a matter of not getting something working -- IIRC > CD Baby did *work* when it was in Rails. In reality, I think it was > that > he didn't understand MVC, Ruby or Rails when he started the > migration -- > it just looked cool, so he went out and hired a Rails programmer to > do it. > > > > Question is, why is his site important enough to warrant him writing on anything? It's still a crappy looking site, always has been. I could care less what he has to say for or against a language or framework. (which he can't seem to understand the difference or separation between) He did say he was not fond of frameworks. So he sticks to PHP alone which is a mishmash of functions. I don't think that guy is qualified to say much about building software. 2 years to rebuild in Rails?! How?! Simple. You can't force an existing database structure onto a framework that has an ORM. Doesn't work well if at all. You can migrate the data. easy.