All blog posts tagged with rails
Grails and Ruby on Rails OO - Kind of Odd
After having worked in Ruby on Rails and Grails for a bit now, something occurred to me that's a little odd about their designs. In this particular observation, both the frameworks end up with the same net effect (but achieve it in different ways). The issue in question is how to declare different m…
Grails More Impressions - Scripts
For my next reflection on impressions with Grails, I'm going to look at scripts (in the context of little utility scripts to simplify common complex tasks).
For this entry, I will compare Grails' "gant" scripts with Ruby "rake" scripts.
First up, namespacing is very different between the two. Gant u…
Proposed Project - Java on Rails
I've become a little disillustion with all the various agile frameworks out there.
At first, I had high hopes for Ruby on Rails, but after working on it for a year and a half, I decided that Ruby is a terrible language, and Rails is an aweful framework built on top of a terrible language.
Naturally,…
Grails First Impressions – GORM vs. ActiveRecord
This blog entry is about my thoughts and observations while I'm starting to learn Grails. At the onset, the primary thing I've concerned myself with is the domain layer (what Ruby on Rails calls “models”). For the purposes of my impressions, I'm going to compare Grails' GORM with Ruby on Rails' Acti…
XML-RPC under Ruby on Rails
On a current project, I needed to develop a series of web services for a custom single-signon (unified login) for a bunch of different websites to share. The project needed to be in Ruby on Rails, since that is what is available to the servers, and needed to use a protocol which PHP, Java and Ruby c…
When "Agile", "Dynamic" and "Typeless" Become a Hindrance.
In recent years, I've seen the apparent rising popularity of "Agile" programming, powered by "dynamic" languages such as "Ruby". While these things seem warm and fluffy at first, in the long term with large projects, they really can become a difficult beast to control.
Let's take "Ruby on Rails" …
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