Friday, April 06, 2007

Luddite on Rails

Heard much about Ruby And Rails of late and decided to do a hello-world. Ruby/Rails is another attempt at a panacea. Maybe one day disaster will strike and somebody will find it. It would put a lot of us out of work - The industry is for the most part a haven for intellectual tinkerers and equivalents of Maytag repair men, driven by deadlines and necessity, dealing with messy, labor intensive legacy code and myriad imperfections. The Quest for Beauty and Simplicity takes the backseat, more's the pity, but at least we accurately reflect the state of the rest of humankind: Semi-random chaos overlaid by dreams of what we'll be when we grow up.

Thus, as real-world relevance is king, the quest for a higher standard in hello-worlds:

  • Let's get a full-blown IDE with debugging & all.
  • The real world demands CRUD. Let's make something which actually stores & retrieves data.
  • It has to be Web 2.0-ish because it sells better.
  • It has to be test driven. Not just because it's so useful. It's also cooler.
Stay tuned.

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