Comments on: Postcards from a .NET Tourist in RubyOnRailsLand

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By: Russell Ball

Russell Ball — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:45:44 +0000

@Josh – I just looked at the heroku site and it looks intriguing. Thanks for the suggestion. I’ll give it a try.

@John – Thanks for the great links. I didn’t know you could do inline C in Ruby. I’ll give it a try tonight. This may not be as big of an issue as I had assumed.

By: Russell Ball

Russell Ball — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:26:49 +0000

@Catto – Thanks. It’s not that I don’t think code can be beautiful, I’ve just seen so many subjective variations on this sense of aesthetics that I think it is presumptuous to claim it as a language feature. It’s sort of like saying pick our religion because it is the most spiritual. It’s too much in the eye of the beholder, so it just comes across as annoying.

By: John Repko

John Repko — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:24:51 +0000

Great article.

It’s reasonable to be skeptical about the ability of most development shops to drop down into “c” when needed, but dropping down, either inline (http://lojic.com/blog/2007/10/.....e-in-ruby/) or external (http://www.rubyinside.com/how-.....s-100.html) is surprisingly easy.

It will be great when Ruby gets faster (with JRuby, and as 1.9 becomes Ruby 2.0), but for now it’s fast enough for most sites avoids the antipattern of “premature optimization” (such as universal use of stored procedures for CRUD) common in .Net development. With a little review most dev shops should be able to drop down to c code if they need to for inner loops, or other heavy lifting.

By: josh

josh — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:23:28 +0000

I’m a .net dev new to ruby/rails too.. and i think there is benefit in learning it. If nothing else, it gives you perspective on what you’re doing in .net and patterns or approaches you’re using.

Also, with my limited knowledge, I did this site in less than 2 hours: http://cubscoutdaycamp.heroku.com/

btw, heroku rocks. http://www.heroku.com

By: Catto

Catto — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:59:14 +0000

Hey Now Coder,
e4, I like the post, it makes me think. Personally I think code is beautiful. I’m looking forward to your future posts.
Thx 4 the info,
Catto