{"id":639,"date":"2005-11-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-04T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwneu.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2005\/11\/05\/574\/"},"modified":"2005-11-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-04T23:00:00","slug":"574","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2005\/11\/05\/574\/","title":{"rendered":"Maybe it\u2019s Not Just Ruby on Rails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>chromatic &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oreillynet.com\/pub\/wlg\/8237\">Maybe it\u2019s Not Just Ruby on Rails<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn my mind, the issue isn\u2019t \u201cRuby on Rails is more flexible and capable than standard J2EE or .NET for any project under a (very high) threshold of complexity&#8220;. The real point is that the simplicity, flexibility, and abstraction possibilities offered by dynamic languages and well-designed libraries \u2013 as well as a talent for exploiting radical simplicity, extracting commonalities from actual working code, and knowing when too much flexibility makes you less agile \u2013 offer a huge advantage over languages and libraries and frameworks and platforms that assume you need a lot of hand-holding to solve a really hard problem.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, Ruby on Rails does what it does very well. It\u2019s not the only thing that does, though. I wonder perhaps if some of the buzz and glow is that it\u2019s new and shiny (in comparison), so that people haven\u2019t already formed their own opinions about it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>chromatic &#8211; Maybe it\u2019s Not Just Ruby on Rails: \u201cIn my mind, the issue isn\u2019t \u201cRuby on Rails is more flexible and capable than standard J2EE or .NET for any project under a (very high) threshold of complexity&#8220;. The real point is that the simplicity, flexibility, and abstraction possibilities offered by dynamic languages and well-designed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}