RailsConf 09: David Heinemeier Hansson, "Rails 3 ...and the real secret to high productivity"

[learnjapanesehacker]

Well, I agree, it's annoying looking at dated code and they still sell Rails 2 books on amazon and your local bookstore.

However, the more I learn, the more I learn to adapt. I started learning Rails in March after writing a spaghetti code web app in PHP with MySQL (it worked great!). Being a self starter and a n00b to dynamic web application development, I knew I needed to build on a framework that offered security. After much frustration with what was available, I hit the Rails runnin' !

[cdtube2001]

I appreciated his comment at the end on backwards compatibility, re: Java.

[armd86]

hey. is that ben affleck speaking? ;D

[LAnonHubbard]

Who let the muppet on the stage?

[groberts101]

At 21 minutes David says;

"If you want to break every single Rails application out there because you have a great idea for Rails 3 its absolutely on the table".

For me the what spoils Rails is the way perfectly good code breaks when I upgrade plugins/gems/Rails.

Ironically it leads to awful productivity, for me anyway.

[ipzent]

I like O'reilly Media, and books, really great stuff

[makevoid]

I love the way dhh says these half-truths about rails->merb cop... ehm merge :)

[djsnakeyes]

Did Twitter drop RoR for PHP?

[igorgue]

hehe... NO!, they're using a lot of technologies (rails included), but no PHP.

[djsnakeyes]

Ok I wasn't sure. Thanks for the clarification.