Re:Why rails annoys me... (Score 1)

perhaps these comments weren't meant to be analysed or taken seriously, but if your position is that community-minded sites facilitating an exchange of information are not a real world use of the internet then that seems at odds with, well, the internet. ask yourself why you are compelled to keep visiting a website that appears to fall into your category of not being of the 'real world' to post your opinion to. then probably visit this link to compare your ideas with some others.

So, you are saying that RoR is only suitable for internet projects? I thought it was also being touted as the J2EE killer for web applications in general? If you constrain your set of applications enough (two guys working in a garage, creating socially impacting fluffy websites), I'm sure RoR becomes very significant. But don't try to tell me with a straight face that it is the cure all for corporate webapp development.

fair enough. then sit on the fence rather than slinging mud

Sitting on the fence slinging mud is rather easy when the RoR crowd goes swaggering down the middle of the street stark naked yelling about their new clothes. I saw the same parade go by a few years ago comprised of Java fanatics. And, before that, VB fanboys ("oooh, look, I can make a button that pops up hello world!")
And, before that, C++ nuts. With minor throngs of Python groupies and PERL diehards along the way.