Category Archive for: ‘Ruby on Rails’

• Still Tired, But Moved

  Virtually the only thing I’ve accomplished this week is migrating deirdre.net to Textdrive.com, which offers a bunch of cool things including Ruby on Rails hosting. Anyhow, the main reason I moved from he.net was simply capacity — my prior account only offered 2mb of space. …

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• Ruby on Rails: First Glance

  A lot of Pythonistas dislike ruby because it’s too perl-like. I can see what they’re saying. However, the ruby code I’ve read is all organized very cleanly. I don’t know if it’s possible to be as ugly in ruby as it is in perl, but …

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• RoR

  I read some critiques of Ruby on Rails today — and I’m not sure some of the people weren’t just missing some of the point. Programmers tend to forget how inaccessible programming is. Even seasoned programmers occasionally do the bang-head-against-desk thing while trying to figure …

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• Finally!

  I finally had an hour to play with my little bloggie. How I’ve missed you! The problem turned out to be some nasty garbage in either the options or the comments. I cleaned out everything that didn’t appear to be essential. Lo, everything worked again. …

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