Comment by alinajaf
14 years ago
Serious response from Rails-land.
Though this project is interesting, it's not really going to make much of a dent in my daily workflow. There is a metric shit-ton of work being put into things that do. Over the past few years:
* The Rails queuing API (so you all queuing methods e.g. via Resque or DelayedJob have a common client interface).
* The asset pipeline (css/js concatenation + dependency management, plus precompilation for prod).
* Profoundly, bundler. I dread doing anything without having bundler there to declare, manage and allow me to browse the code of all my dependencies.
So yeah, the stuff that makes the news on HN isn't where the goodies are at in Rails.
> I've always felt the strength of the Python community is that it was able to let the idioms and cleanliness of Python stand for themselves while they advance of the state of the art for the work-a-day programmer.
:%s /Python/Rails/g<CR>
Rails volken: Do yourselves a favor, stop promoting stuff like this. It makes you look like Baby's First Web App.
I'd seen the Resque/DelayedJob stuff. The equivalent in Python-land are Celery and Carrot. They're probably not much different.
>* The asset pipeline (css/js concatenation + dependency management, plus precompilation for prod).
Creating defaults for this stuff is definitely cool, but OTOH, it's something we solved at my company with a single bash script ;)
>:%s /Python/Rails/g<CR>
Vim user. Pffffft. ;) All hail the hypno-Emacs!
>it's [action.io] not really going to make much of a dent in my daily workflow
I would hope not. I would think most serious programmers have a pretty smooth/fine-tuned pipeline for "save file, run script, see changes in $SERVER(s)"
> I'd seen the Resque/DelayedJob stuff. The equivalent in Python-land are Celery and Carrot. They're probably not much different.
I'd expect as much.
> Creating defaults for this stuff is definitely cool, but OTOH, it's something we solved at my company with a single bash script ;
Good for you guys! That's going to be one hell of a bash script though, enjoy maintaining that.
> Vim user. Pffffft. ;) All hail the hypno-Emacs!
Err, OK.
>Err, OK.
No sense of humor? Oh right, HN.
>Good for you guys! That's going to be one hell of a bash script though, enjoy maintaining that.
Nope. Catenating files has been the privilege of Unix users since the 70s, that we would believe this to be difficult or complicated is embarrassing. The trickier part was sedding the query string that invalidates the old versions.
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