Comments on: Ruby on Rails http://www.contemporary-home-computing.org/car-metaphors/ruby-on-rails/ Watching Analogies in the World of Computers Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:26:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 By: Fr. M. http://www.contemporary-home-computing.org/car-metaphors/ruby-on-rails/#comment-12 Fr. M. Tue, 13 Mar 2007 09:56:19 +0000 http://www.contemporary-home-computing.org/car-metaphors/ruby-on-rails/#comment-12 I was going to get that book, didn't know there was a previous edition, cause I am studying ruby on rails the framework itself uses the word "scaffold" to name the operation that builds the models, controllers, helpers and views from your database model the problem I have with rails is that it doesn't run on just any host, and specially, not my current one I was going to get that book, didn’t know there was a previous edition, cause I am studying ruby on rails

the framework itself uses the word “scaffold” to name the operation that builds the models, controllers, helpers and views from your database model
the problem I have with rails is that it doesn’t run on just any host, and specially, not my current one

]]> By: Fr. M. http://www.contemporary-home-computing.org/car-metaphors/ruby-on-rails/#comment-15 Fr. M. Mon, 26 Mar 2007 13:49:02 +0000 http://www.contemporary-home-computing.org/car-metaphors/ruby-on-rails/#comment-15 ah, I got the book now having looked more closely at the picture I think it is meant to emphasize on the "agile" (have a look at the <a href="http://www.agilemanifesto.org/" rel="nofollow">manifesto</a>) and also the first edition of the book was made when rails was very new and people needed to be reassured that it was all sturdy as a train... now that ruby on rails is at version 1.2 (wow!) and they claim the book had to be completely rewritten the emphasis can brought back on lightness ah, I got the book now
having looked more closely at the picture I think it is meant to emphasize on the “agile” (have a look at the manifesto) and also the first edition of the book was made when rails was very new and people needed to be reassured that it was all sturdy as a train… now that ruby on rails is at version 1.2 (wow!) and they claim the book had to be completely rewritten the emphasis can brought back on lightness

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