Comments on: MythBusting — We Agree! Ruby is Awesome!

By: Mathieu Martin

Mathieu Martin — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:34:36 +0000

I would rephrase

“it’s near impossible to spend even a day in Ruby without learning what blocks are.”

“it’s near impossible to spend even a day in Ruby without using blocks.”

What I like about Ruby blocks/procs is that they (can) look enough like Java/C#/C++ blocks that a programmer new to Ruby can learn them even without realizing that he’s beginning to use a new, more powerful concept.

Next thing he knows, he’s using some of the iterators with parameters and it immediately makes sense.

When he finally gets around to learning explicitly about blocks, he’ll realize he’s been using them all along. I love that about Ruby.

By: cris

cris — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:58:20 +0000

Hi, Yehuda. I can add even more to your post. I have compared “hello world” controller for Merb, Rails and Pylons(python framework). And Merb was at first, Pylons at second place and Rails at last. But that was about 3 months ago, maybe today it performs even better.

Pylons was better only in memory consumption (17 Mb Pylons vs 23Mb in Merb).

By: vire7

vire7 — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:14:23 +0000

And what’s funny is that now that I’ve fallen hard for the Merb way of doing things, I now love Rails instead of resenting it. RoR is a great fit for a lot of people, but not for me. Competing frameworks allowed me to stay with the language I love and kept me from hoping over to Python/Django for my next project.

Long live Ruby!