Tag Archives: RailsMerb

Rails Development: Comparing platforms

And I know what I’m talking about! I’ve been doing heavy rails development lately, on all three major platforms. Start with OS X.
It seems every serious Screencast for Rails was recorded using the famous Textmate Editor on OS X. At first sight, Textmate may seem to be a pretty ordinary Text Editor. Well, it isn’t. [...]

Why PHP should be banned.

Neither is Basic! Really, normally I’m trying to be objective, but I just can’t when it comes to PHP. I’ve done a lot of stuff in PHP over the years ( yes, including a CMS, Portal, Guestbook and Gallery ) but as far as I can tell this language meets every requirement to be disqualified [...]

DataMapper vs. ActiveRecord, a discussion

5 Reasons DataMapper Will Deprecate ActiveRecord is a well pointed out list of reasons why DataMapper will in the author’s opinion overtake ActiveRecord. And there is nothing left to do but to agree.
I started a project a while ago, 1topf.net, which unfortunately died because of a massive lack of time here, but I started building it [...]

Antiusability at its best: Language Documentation

Whether you’re an active developer busy doing some Java, Ruby, Perl or ( fill in your language here ) based projects, you’ll most likely have some kind of browser windows opened sometimes providing you with the necessary documentation for libraries or ( but hopefully not ) language basics. 
Because I’m not in love with one language [...]

Rails and Merb to merge and form Rails 3

Just read that article. Interesting, i worked with both of them and was equally impressed, so I definitely encourage this evolution. 
Jumblesale, the project discussed a few posts earlier, is also based on Rails2, and it just works.