Rails is crap. There – I said it. Apologies to the geek with a peanut dick but it just sucks really bad.
Compared to PHP – Rails is Great
Yeah it is great – its epic in fact. But then again that isn’t very hard is it considering how shit PHP is?
Stop Stealing Ruby’s Limelight
The reason people love Rails is because of Ruby. It pisses me off when I hear people getting pissed off with having to learn Ruby so they can use Rails. For crying out loud!! Ruby is the foundation, cause, Nu(n), beginning, soul, reason for Rails existence. All of those funky little things that Rails can do are entirely due to Ruby. Ruby is an amazing language and Rails is an insult rather than a blessing to it.
Rails and Mongrel = Unstable
Every time I get into an argument regarding Rails’ reliability it comes back to: “It must be your code”.
Well fair enough. Lets say my code is the reason that all my Rails sites fail at least once a week. Or maybe its my setup, or server config. Maybe I’m not using Mongrel right. I’m a dumb fuck who can’t use Rails…
But…
This “dumb fuck” can setup and manage multiple Django sites without issue. Without hassle. Without self delusion. Without restarts every fu*king week! This “dumb fuck” has had 3 Django sites running for the past 8 months with no downtime.
Okay – so I could setup scripts to kick Mongrel back in when it falls over. I could manage or code better. I could do many things. But why the fuck should I?
I think a good analogy is this:
- Rails = Windows
- Django = Apple
You see – Django Just (fucking) Works. Like a Mac. Nice and simple. Reliable. Consistent.
Rails needs hacking and bollocking around with until it settles. Then you need to faff some more when it plays up. Sounds familiar doesn’t it? Just like Windows.
But All the Cool Kids Use Rails
Yeah – all the cool kids use Rails. Do you remember that all the “cool kids” at school were normally the biggest dicks in the school? They were the thickest, most aggressive, most lacking in self confidence and respect. They followed a ‘leader’ blindly because they were too weak to follow their own path.
The Rails community comes in two parts:
- A core of heavily invested super-egotistical fat-assed vermin that need it to continue in order to make money training, publishing, etc.
- A huge cloud of numb nuts who don’t know how to program but jumped on the Rails bandwagon to be cool. These people invariably make themselves look like idiots when challenged.
Lets look at some real technology leaders:
Google - they use Python for the majority of their systems as well as choosing Django templates for its Google App Engine. They also rapidly built Django support into it. Rails hasn’t even hit the radar.
Rails Has Huge Support From The Tech Industry
Similar to the above but I knew you’d never read through anything longer than a few paragraphs so I put this shit here.
Rails attracts disaffected, immature hippies and divs. No major company has embraced Rails for anything serious. The only ‘companies’ that have embraced Rails are the fluffy-bunny brigade of non-companies. They make money but they’re the technological equivalent of the Care Bears:
Django Copied Rails
No, it didn’t – that was my controlled response to this ridiculous statement. My natural response had a lot more ‘beating YOU in the face for thinking such a thing’. Django and Rails were born from very different worlds and purposes. Neither copied the other. Although multiple projects have spawned in the Rails community to copy the Django admin interface. Jealous, much?
Discuss?
Comment or email me. If you disagree I’ll likely mock you. If you agree I’ll send a digital kiss.
Finally a Django CMS that looks stable and well built has been released at: 
I’ve not been posting in a while as I received a new Wii, DS and Mac over the Christmas period which has kept me very busy – thats on top of working all the hours god sends!
I’m loving the Netvibes plugins at the moment and I produced a second one today. This time I’ve decided to have the body of it as static HTML rather than generating it using the included widget API. It seems to start faster as a result.
True fax. Pirates are rubbish.