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Ruby on Rails - Great Slashdot Comment

Written by Shanti A. Braford March 4th, 2005in Ruby on Rails, Tech Stuff.

Original comment posted on this Slashdot thread on RoR:

It’s a collection of Java Best Practices rewritten in a ‘cool’ geeky language. Nothing new….

The reply:

Quite true. For example, Java Best Practice #1 is to avoid using long, detailed XML files for configuration, and instead use the programming languge itself, which is dynamically loaded and interpreted when needed.

Another Java Best Practice is to let the framework write the tedious boilerplate code for you. For example, in Struts, you just run
% struts myAppName
and you’re halfway done writing your Web application.

Here’s one more Java Best Practice: Avoid expensive , complex application server software, and do rapid development using the Web server that is built into the standard library. Then deploy to the Web server of choice with no code changes or quirky vendor-specific API hacks.

Get +5 bonus points if you can spot the sarcasm! I think it may have been missed on a few die-hard java folks.

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