I don’t like it but I’ll do it. 
I rewrote my Eve Online Database Viewer. With the recent Trinity Dump (Postgres version coming soon) I wanted to rewrite the PHP script in order to better make use of mod_rewrite and to better handle errors.
December 7, 2007
September 28, 2007
Some “Other Blog” hilarity
It seems that a blog post was made by a guy named Jeremy Sivers to pimp his E-comerce site (Sorry, no google juice for you).
In the thinly veiled blog entry-come-advertisement Jeremy uses Rails and Ruby as a punching bag (up against PHP) to drive people to his site. (I nearly said “poorly designed” but my sites aren’t works of art either. Hey man, I’m no artist either!)
The many dozens of pages of comments are filled with many people backing up Rails and PHP while completely missing the point: Jeremy wants to use O’Reilly’s blogs as a means to advertise his poor coding and (his company’s) project management skills as well as to advertise.
His post can be summed up as follows:
Visit my site! Two years ago I decided to try and rewrite my site’s codebase with Rails while not bothering to leverage migrations (or to otherwise change the legacy schema to a rails-friendly schema). I suck at programming and project management and exadurate a lot so after wasting two years of time and money I decided to spend two months to code the site from scratch in PHP!
What I want to know is why didn’t he just use the existing codebase from the start? Was it broken? Was there some other Ruby/Rails standardisation in progress that required the E-commerce side to change then?
In any event: Don’t rewrite anything unless it doesn’t work. Use Rails’s conventions – they’re better than yours. Don’t worry about scaling, yet.
Incidentally my personal site is still backed with PHP because there’s no compelling reason to waste time rewriting it.
June 23, 2007
And so it begins
My name is Lisa Seelye and I’m a Ruby on Rails developer. That is to say I use Rails in my hobbies as well as professionally. I’ve been using it since May 2006 and have loved it since.
Prior to using Ruby and Rails I came from a PHP background (the astute observer will note that my site uses PHP) and before that Perl.
I live in the United Kingdom (by way of the United States) and work in Leeds, England. I love my job and the chance to use Rails is really nifty!
So yeah… I’m hoping to use this space to write about Ruby, Rails and other things.
The name of this domain name is shamelessly stolen from DHH’s keynote from Railsconf 2006. I happen to appreciate the CRUD way and REST so I appreciate David’s ”crudvision”.
Hello, World.
