[stonemetal]

I think you are correct, I don't think he means popular ideas are likely to be wrong. Just more likely to be misused or misapplied. As in the linked article, they received a lot of advice to use rails not because it was the right tool for the job but because it was the popular tool for a vaguely similar job. Also no one had the knowledge to comment on their selected tool because it wasn't the popular tool.

[Roboprog]

As a developer in the "out-back" (California Central Valley / Sacramento area), I find it a bit funny watching somebody who gets to use Ruby (at all) angsting over which framework to use. At least they have escaped the XML-Hell trap that is JEE.

I'm happy for the guy that he gets to do anything at all beyond that which is promoted by Oracle or Microsoft. I suppose Google might belong on the list of "Promoters not to be Ignored", as well, but they haven't flogged the use of inappropriate hammers enough, yet.

[jingo]

"JEE"

"Oracle or Microsoft"

Would any self-respecting programmer follow along with such idiocy if they were not paid to do so?

[Roboprog]

Certainly not the things I reach for when I'm at home, but that is indeed what they pay me to do :-)