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by Tobias Luetke.
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Feed Description: Read the announcement: CD Baby rewrite in Postgres and Ruby, Baby!CD Baby is going rails. This is huge! If you don’t know CD Baby, its a distribution site with over 80.000 musicians under contract and its one of the biggest digital distributors of audio to Apple iTunes, Napster, Rhapsody, etc. Read all about it here. What is even more exciting about it is that I’m on board for the rewrite and I had chance to talk to Derek on the phone directly for a consulting session which might have played its little part in the decision to go with rails. Come monday I’ll work together with him and other rails contributor Jeremy Kemper to help crunch those 90k lines of PHP in beautifully compact code for which Rails and Ruby are known. Here is a quote from Derek’s announcement on his weblog: Like a lost soul walkin’ the earth, lookin’ for spirituality, that stumbles upon the right church with the right people at the right time, I’ve found my niche with Ruby. Its little itty-bitty community attracts some brilliant “think different” types with a love for beautiful code that do this for love, not money.
Patrick, the author of webwork thinks ruby on rails is overhyped without ever trying it.
At the end of the day, RoR is simply a RESTful CRUD framework.
There isn’t anything wrong with that. I think we need more of these “low barrier” frameworks. However, to proclaim that RoR revolutionizes web application development is just ludicrous. Anyone who has written a very large application (thousands of concurrent users and/or hundreds of thousands of gigabytes) knows that a CRUD framework just doesn’t cut it.
Considering he is the author of bloody webwork this is especially funny.
“First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
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