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by forkhammer 13y ago
Well, they are buzzwords, yeah, but it's important to note that buzzwords become so because of their popularity and prevalence. Why do you need model-view data binding? Emulating the responsiveness of desktop apps, for one, or having l
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by forkhammer 13y ago
Here's the brief answer, as I understand it: they're frameworks that provide model-view data binding, ease data/presentational decoupling, and (in some cases) provide single-page app (SPA) infrastructure in the mode of MV*. I
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by forkhammer 14y ago
Every time I see a new hosted CMS pop up, I wince and pray that this is not the day where some genius has revealed his brilliance and I will shortly be out of a job. Hasn't happened yet, true, but it doesn't stop me from worrying.
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by forkhammer 14y ago
Exactly! That's the reason I hate broccoli -- every person who tries to feed me it seems concerned that salt and vinegar potato chips are the only vegetable I eat. It seems to be part of their whole culture. They're clearly just potatohater
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Should Rails Remove the Scaffold Generator?(groups.google.com)
2 points by forkhammer 15y ago|0 comments
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by forkhammer 15y ago
As someone who has worked on all three projects — Forem, Spree, and Refinery — it's a pain in the butt trying to get them to work together. Forem's approach is brilliant, but it's also a user-friendliness issue to require them to provide th
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Authentication doesn't belong in your Rails Engine(ryanbigg.com)
28 points by forkhammer 15y ago|5 comments
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by forkhammer 15y ago
I don't think that all of Rails is beyond beginners; and certainly, some people do manage to learn the prereqs while they learn Rails. But I'm advocating being blunt and telling people to learn the prerequisites, instead of mindlessly answe
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by forkhammer 15y ago
For what it's worth, I feel the same way: learning Rails has sent me down a lot of roads and inspired me to learn a lot of new, interesting, valuable things. I knew Ruby before I started... but even just the conceptual elegance of Rails has
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by forkhammer 15y ago
Definitely not, and I cut my teeth with Ruby on Windows, way back when. You can learn on Windows, but it is so much easier on a *NIX machine. As I said in the supplemental article that I wrote to go with this piece: > [If you choose t
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by forkhammer 15y ago
I support this wholeheartedly. A good mentor is absolutely critical.
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by forkhammer 15y ago
I'm not talking about 'professional programming', really—I'm talking about being able to achieve a reasonable outcome in a reasonable amount of time. I'm not even interested in people becoming good programmers. My point is that people who w
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by forkhammer 15y ago
A few questions, then: 1. How much programming had you done before trying it? 2. How complicated was your application?
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Rails is Definitely Not for Beginners(rob.yurkowski.net)
34 points by forkhammer 15y ago|42 comments