Noooooooooooooo!

Thanks Joe, you’ve successfully killed any confidence I had in bringing the Morts into the RoRst Century…

@Joey
I am always reserved about “Morts” they like all users amaze me on how they can mess up what I think is unbreakable. They will find a way to create a GUI wizard that writes controllers and views for them. Then they will come out with their own scripting language called RScript because Ruby doesn’t make sense for them and they need a higher level language. It will happen, it is just a matter of time. I can easily see some gui that makes pretty representations of all the controllers and you click and drag them to the view you need wired up. Through magic the view is wired up and AR classes are created. Oh I can see it now…. Am I scaring you yet?

@Jason
It was only a matter of time! lol

I haven’t really played with it that much. Definately take a look at the screencasts on the RoR site. I did the flickr one to test it out and was amazed how easy it was.

http://www.rubyonrails.org/screencasts

Expect emails from me guys.

Just some interesting thoughts…

@Joe : Say it brother! I couldn’t have said it better myself. That was exactly what I was aiming to say. Microsoft SHOULD be leading us and be ahead of everyone else, not behind the eight ball on this one. I think the next 2-3 years will be a very important time for them. The morts (not all of them), are quickly becoming more experienced so the number of more experienced .Net developers is increasing at an amazing rate. Microsoft has to lead the pack now, or be left behind in the dust.

p.s. I loved that comment about ubuntu being a ninja in the night. I could picture an orange/brown ninja with a gnome logo on his chest =)

You spend 5 years creating a product that maybe adds 15% more productivity if that! In 5 years with a multi billion dollar budget they should be Apple! The should be leading innovation in the OS market not the other way around.

Ballmer has recently indicate that MS future direction is in the “Cloud”. A clear statement to the fact that recent pressure from Google and Apple are sinking in, not to mention Ubuntu coming in from the shadows like a ninja in the night.

So the question is as a development community, what do we expect from a perspective of “quality” and “productivity”? Is it innovation? We have the web. The fact that RoR is taking off is sad!!! The reason I am saying this is because the web model has been around for decades but we are just NOW figuring out how to wrap an intuitive and scalable MVC pattern around it! MS should be leading this front given their R&D budgets and overspending! Not playing catch up. Stop catering to Mort and listen to real developers who need real tools! Cater to Mort in VBA and Office, be innovative in ALL other areas!

Sorry for the rant you just struck a nerve… LOL

I had full intention to listen and blog on those. I fell asleep though. I guess you snooze you lose…..or another LosTechies does it and you still win.

Thanks for the heads-up Joey.

Unfortunately for Microsoft, by the time IronRuby is ready to “ship”, many more folks will have switched from .NET to Ruby/Rails and probably won’t look back. Including hopefully myself in the somewhat near future.

Oh, btw, Rubiverse can be found here: http://rubiverse.com/

Like my favorite quote from Linus Torvalds (Creator of Linux – which rocks by way (I agree with you Sean)) – “Talk is cheap, show me the code”.

Keep the posts coming bro, they are excellent information for the masses.