Sami Samhuri
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Replace the Swift site generator with a Ruby and Phlex implementation. Loads site and projects from TOML, derive site metadata from posts. Migrate from make to bake and add standardrb and code coverage tasks. Update CI and docs to match the new workflow, and remove unused assets/dependencies plus obsolete tooling.
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| Title | Author | Date | Timestamp | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ruby and Rails have spoiled me rotten | Sami Samhuri | 17th July, 2006 | 2006-07-17T05:40:00-07:00 | rails, ruby, php, coding, framework, php, rails, ruby, zend |
It's true. I'm sitting here coding in PHP using the Zend Framework and all I can think about is how much nicer Rails is, or how much easier it is to do [x] in Ruby. It's not that the Zend Framework is bad or anything, it's quite nice, but you just can't match Ruby's expressiveness in a language like PHP. Add the amazing convenience Rails builds on top of Ruby and that's a really hard combo to compete with.
I'd love to be using mixins instead of mucking around with abstract classes and interfaces, neither of which will just let you share a method between different classes. Writing proxy methods in these tiny in-between classes is annoying. (ie. inherit from Zend_class, then my real classes inherit from the middle-man class) I could add things to Zend's classes, but then upgrades are a bitch. I miss Ruby. I could use something like whytheluckystiff's PHP mixins, which is a clever hack, but still a hack.
I keep looking at Rails code to see how things are done there, and I already coded a nearly complete prototype in Rails as a reference. I could have finished the thing in Rails by now, seriously. I'm still playing catch-up writing validations and model classes for all my objects, stuff I could've had for free using Rails, with an extra 10 mins to add validations and make sure they're all working nicely.
It's no wonder David H. Hansson wasn't able to write a framework he was happy with in PHP. After using Rails everything seems like a chore. I'm just coding solved problems over again in an inferior language.
But hey, I'm learning things and I still got to use Ruby even if the code won't be used later. I guess this experience will just make me appreciate the richness of Ruby and Rails even more.