[ritchiea]

That Rails is a Ghetto piece is filled with personal insults, gripes, anger, accusations that people are slighting him or intending to slight him. There seems to be one critique of Rails buried in all that, that DHH may have been running a Rails app that required many restarts a day. I only had the patience to get through the anger and the personal stuff because I really wanted to actually read the piece before I replied to your post.

When you spew that much anger into the world you're going to rub people the wrong way and concern others that if things start to go slightly south you're next to go on the shit list.

I already feel like I'm posting too much in this thread about a particular individual that I've only had a few interactions with on Twitter, but as a programmer it's extremely important to me that discourse between programmers is considerate. If you can't or won't express yourself without endless anger and personal insults, why is it the responsibility of other people to be patient with your tantrums?

[zedshaw]

No, the relevant fact in RiaG is that DHH had been lying to people for years claiming that "rails scales" when he had to handle 400 restarts a day of his process.

And then I was trying to be funny and shit.

[nailer]

> There seems to be one critique of Rails buried in all that

Yep, it was more a criticism of people's behaviour than rails itself.