Archive for the 'Rails' Category
Another Rails and dynamic language fallacy concerning missing methods
5 Comments Published June 13th, 2008 in Java, Rails, RubyRussell writes in the post The Dynamic Language Advantage: A Concrete Example:
“All you have to do is make the call to the non-existent method that contains your column names and Rails will dynamically generate the method for you.”
Though he got quite some flak for his opinion.
@cards = Card.find_all_by_cardType_and_expirationData(cardTypeId, expirationDate)
Which looks magic to most […]
Java and Apple: Fallen from love
8 Comments Published October 27th, 2007 in Apple, Java, Rails, RubyAs several people have written before, there is no Java 1.6 in the new Mac OS. What a stupid move. At most developer conferences concerning Java people have been and are using Apple laptops. Now in the last release, Leopard, Apple doesn’t even mention Java any more. But the page shouts “Work in a […]
Grails more productive than Rails
5 Comments Published August 2nd, 2007 in Groovy and Grails, Productivity, Rails, Seam, Software developmentCatchy title. But the guys from ALTERthought have some - much needed - numbers. Their numbers show Grails to be more productive than Rails, which is in turn more productive than Spring and pure JEE. As I’ve argued for years, there is no science in computer science. We need to put facts back into computer […]
