IAiamgilesbowkett·Mar 28, 2012
I have several problems with this. The first, and most important, is here:
http://xkcd.com/927/
The second is personal, so please take it with a grain of salt. I pointed out that Yehuda's Bundler gem has an automated condescension feature; if you try to use it without saying 'source :rubygems,' it heckles you and mockingly asks you 'did you mean to say source :rubygems? if so please go back and type it in.' this is pretty anti-Rails in my opinion, insofar as Rails is about sane defaults and programmer happiness. But I raised this issue, and the only response I got was 'fuck you.'
If I've had that kind of interaction with you, and you want my money, you better have an absolutely rock-solid plan for world peace. This is something other than an absolutely rock-solid plan for world peace, I've had that kind of interaction, he's not getting my
Read the rest
money.
Not proud of taking the conversation there, but I do at least want to be honest. I gave Ze Frank $600 on his Kickstarter, but this project isn't getting a dime from me. I had in fact been thinking of contributing some amount in that range but after a brief attempt at talking to Yehuda spent it instead on a music class I wanted to take. :-)
Anyway, another objection: I've never heard of him doing anything with Objective-C and have no idea if he's ever even used the language before.
(If you follow @jm on Twitter you know where I'm stealing a lot of these ideas from.)
Another objection goes back to the first one, the XKCD 'standards' thing, and comes from a @jm tweet as well as from an undervalued comment buried way, way, WAY the fuck down at the very bottom of this page: we already have several projects of this nature. For instance:
https://github.com/thoughtbot/laptop
http://bitnami.org/stack/rubystack
https://github.com/joshfng/railsready
So yeah. There are too many competing standards. What to do? I know! Create a new standard!
I think a much better and simpler solution is to tell people to read http://railstutorial.com/
But the best objection comes from @patmaddox on Twitter:
http://mobile.twitter.com/patmaddox/status/18513425005033472...
Step 1: make Rails hard
Step 2: ask for $25K to make Rails easy
Step 3: PROFIT