And how does a comment as wrong as yours gets to be "insightful"? Don't anyone do their homework anymore?

while we are at it, go and start your project and I will surely contribute to it. Please post the address of YOUR project when you are done.

what do you mean by "not that many people use it", check the active users and repos on github. The fact that you don't use it doesn't mean "not many people" use it. Majority of the best programmers I see uses Ruby, and ROR after seeing what kind of verbose crap a Java program can be. "This it is really hard to find people who understand it well enough to help them work on the code" It is not hard to find people who don't understand it well but actually think they understand enough to criticize, just like your parent did.

Frankly I wouldn't draw conclusion the way you do, I would draw conclusion if I know fully well what the language and the framework is doing. I woul In this case, there is a before_filter :authenticate_user! in that controller, so it WILL authenticate the user before it even gets to that method. If you don't know Ruby on Rails, learn more before drawing such a hash conclusion. If you want to start a language war that involves Ruby on Rails, let the drum roll.