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  arpit shah

  • Useless post without a concrete illustration.

      

    Show us an example of:
     1) What you tried to accomplish.
     2) How you tried to implement it in rails.
     3) The rails code that "didn't work."
     4) The "beautiful" PHP code you created instead.
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  Fumiaki Nagai
  • But the main reason that any programmer learning any new language thinks the new language is SO much better than the old one is because he’s a better programmer now! You look back at your old ugly PHP code, compared to your new beautiful Ruby code, and think, “God that PHP is ugly!” But don’t forget you wrote that PHP years ago and are unfairly discriminating against it now.
     It’s not the language (entirely). It’s you, dude. You’re better now. Give yourself some credit.
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  • I spent two years trying to make Rails do something it wasn’t meant to do, then realized my old abandoned language (PHP, in my case) would do just fine if approached with my new Rails-gained wisdom.
  • It’s the most beautiful PHP I’ve ever written, all wonderfully MVC and DRY, and and I owe it all to Rails.
  • all logic is coming from the models, one per database table, like Martin Fowler’s Active Record pattern
  • real MVC separation: controllers have no HTML or business-logic, and only use REST-approved HTTP
  • Ruby is prettier. Rails has nice shortcuts. But no big shortcuts I can’t code-up myself in a day if needed.
  • Rails was an amazing teacher. I loved it’s “do exactly as I say” paint-by-numbers framework that taught me some great guidelines.
  • But don’t forget you wrote that PHP years ago and are unfairly discriminating against it now.

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     4) Some scheme based stuff
     5) Erlang stuff
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  • But I hope that this reaches someone somewhere thinking, “God our old code is ugly. If we only threw it all away and did it all over in Rails, it’d be so much easier!”
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