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Re: J2EE Web Frameworks

DHH — Tue, 19 Oct 2004 01:46:43 -0000

I'm sad to hear that Ruby on Rails is out of the race merely because the IT gatekeepers haven't heard of it. What exactly were their reasoning for shuning Ruby? Couldn't they get it to compile? Didn't they even want to try?

Hopefully, you'll dig deeper for an answer. Maintaining the status que due to ignorance is a terrible way work.

Re: Ruby on Rails

DHH — Mon, 25 Oct 2004 23:38:28 -0000

I've found that most clients only have a superficial interest in the technology chosen for a solution when "all other things are not being equal". If you're able to demonstrate extreme rapid development many clients would rather have "productivity over standards".

Re: Twitter off the Rails? And, so what?

DHH — Sat, 03 May 2008 10:13:38 -0000

We certainly don't run a special version of Rails at 37signals. That wouldn't make any sense. The whole point of open-sourcing Rails was to participate in the shared commons. Running our own fork isn't very compatible or sensible for that.

Re: CRUD, REST, DDD, Rails - these are a few of my favorite things

DHH — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 01:08:50 -0000

Thanks for the kind words. DDD is indeed one of my favorite programming books. Lots of inspiration from Mr. Evans.

Re: Francis Hwang: On fixtures and first-time testers

DHH — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 11:43:46 -0000

You seem to be missing the point of fixtures. If all you're doing is setting up a single fixture, with a single value, for a single test case, well, duh, of course they're not worth it. If, on the other hand, you're setting up an entire slate of fixtures that have relations, like creating an entire, valid account in Basecamp with all the child objects that go with that, it's absolutely worth it in my opinion.

I still use fixtures for current and new projects. I'm aware that there are other ways to get test data, yet I still choose to use fixtures. So of course they're not a lie. How can we be lying about things that we actually use?

You don't like fixtures. Good for you.