From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2007-09-27T07:43:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Recent Criticism about Ruby (Scalability, etc.)

On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 09:28:08AM +0900, 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.

I'm confused.  If it worked . . . why did he throw it away and redo it in
PHP?

-- 
CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ]
They always say that when life gives you lemons you should make lemonade. 
I always wonder -- isn't the lemonade going to suck if life doesn't give
you any sugar?