Comments on: A Rails Story, Or An Engine That Really Could http://pathfindersoftware.com/2008/09/a-rails-story-or-an-engine-that-really-could/ The Fastest Way to Launch Successful Software Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:36:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: yachris http://pathfindersoftware.com/2008/09/a-rails-story-or-an-engine-that-really-could/#comment-8635 yachris Mon, 21 Feb 2011 22:04:03 +0000 http://www.pathf.com/blogs/?p=1131#comment-8635 Excellent choice... though maybe _why could have pulled it off (using his own illustrations, of course). It never would have been finished, alas... Ignoring that, right before Rails came out I was trying to convince the company I work for that we should do an IR&D (Internal research and development) on doing a web framework. I'd realized that a whole lot of web development was basic CRUD for databases, and so having a tool which would examine your database and write the basic CRUD functions (probably in Java) would be a huge step. My proposal got shot down :-) but shortly thereafter Rails showed up, so I was kind of glad I hadn't gotten committed to something that would be overtaken. Excellent choice… though maybe _why could have pulled it off (using his own illustrations, of course). It never would have been finished, alas…

Ignoring that, right before Rails came out I was trying to convince the company I work for that we should do an IR&D (Internal research and development) on doing a web framework. I’d realized that a whole lot of web development was basic CRUD for databases, and so having a tool which would examine your database and write the basic CRUD functions (probably in Java) would be a huge step.

My proposal got shot down :-) but shortly thereafter Rails showed up, so I was kind of glad I hadn’t gotten committed to something that would be overtaken.

]]> By: Robert Miller http://pathfindersoftware.com/2008/09/a-rails-story-or-an-engine-that-really-could/#comment-8634 Robert Miller Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:21:33 +0000 http://www.pathf.com/blogs/?p=1131#comment-8634 I wrote a blog post <a href="http://www.pardontheinformation.com/2008/09/java-vs-ruby-on-rails-it-is-dead-heat.html" rel="nofollow">Java vs. Ruby on Rails</a> that I thought you might enjoy. I wrote a blog post Java vs. Ruby on Rails that I thought you might enjoy.

]]> By: luke http://pathfindersoftware.com/2008/09/a-rails-story-or-an-engine-that-really-could/#comment-8633 luke Thu, 04 Sep 2008 09:05:37 +0000 http://www.pathf.com/blogs/?p=1131#comment-8633 That's brilliant. I think you made the right decision. Along with such seminal tomes as the Pickaxe there also could have been the infamous Engine That Could. To be square I think the theme could have damaged Rails' reputation in a formulative period of its life .. there's nothing like a naff-themed book to cut a phenomenon off at its knee-caps. I think now would be the time to dust off the text though, except make it into a kind of history, or retrospective of sorts. That’s brilliant. I think you made the right decision. Along with such seminal tomes as the Pickaxe there also could have been the infamous Engine That Could. To be square I think the theme could have damaged Rails’ reputation in a formulative period of its life .. there’s nothing like a naff-themed book to cut a phenomenon off at its knee-caps. I think now would be the time to dust off the text though, except make it into a kind of history, or retrospective of sorts.

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