Archive for January, 2008

Rails Alternatives

After the recent turmoil I thought it may be worth pointing out a few alternatives to the Rails framework. So here’s 4 Ruby-based web framework alternatives for starters: Ramaze – Has no known bugs and claims excellent stability. Thems fighting words! Camping – A ‘micro-framework’, this is incredibly lightweight offering limited features but great efficiency [...]

Rails & Ruby Need to Reflect

Despite the unusual comments regarding his martial arts ability Zed Shaws recent rant that railed against the arrogance and immaturity inherent in the Rails community had a great deal of truth.  He said a lot thats been needing to be said for some time. When I first became a fan of Rails 2yrs ago I [...]