Comments on: This Week in Ruby (May 12, 2008)

By: Jeffrey L. Taylor

Jeffrey L. Taylor — Thu, 15 May 2008 01:32:15 +0000

The emacs screencast was interesting. Now I’d like to know what packages he was using.

By: Antonio Cangiano

Antonio Cangiano — Tue, 13 May 2008 18:32:30 +0000

John, I understand your concern and I won’t deny that I pondered it for a while before deciding to mention Michael’s post. I opted to do so though mainly for two reasons.

While perhaps a cheap publicity stunt, the article became somewhat popular and was being discussed well before my post. Good or bad, my principal aim is to report highlights from the community, even when the original article that created a lot of waves is of questionable value. More importantly, the real reason for mentioning it, is because Micheal is a contributor to the Merb project and one of its most vocal advocates, therefore the article may end up conveying the wrong notion that his position, in respect to Rails, is shared by the whole Merb team/community; and nothing could be further from the truth. I thought it was important to point that out. This clarification may seem unnecessary, but this is not always the case. You may remember how the lead developer of MooTools “fired” a contributor (Olmo) for much milder remarks about the competing framework jQuery, in order to distance the project from such accusations.

I tried to cover the issue with a sober tone, in order not to add fuel the flamewar in progress, but I’m fully aware that some may feel like you do about my inclusion.

By: John Wilbur

John Wilbur — Tue, 13 May 2008 17:22:04 +0000

I can’t believe you even mentioned Michael Klishin’s blog post. These days all a desperate blogger has to do is post an immature rant about Rails and the traffic will come. This is a cheap technique.

You are just perpetuating the flame war by linking to Michael Klishin’s post.

By: Mike Woodhouse

Mike Woodhouse — Tue, 13 May 2008 09:55:21 +0000

My copy of Advanced Rails Recipes arrived yesterday, so it’s definitely shipped and delivery, to one address in the UK at least, is confirmed.

That’s my train-time reading material for the next week…

By: Ryan Alyea

Ryan Alyea — Mon, 12 May 2008 20:06:16 +0000

Until I bought my recent iMac, I used the Bitnami RubyStack. I have no experience with the other setups, but it worked wonderfully for me. Definitely recommend to those stuck on Windows still.