Ghetto. Zed may be on to something…

By Luke Pillow - Posted January 9, 2008
Regarding Zed Shaw's "Rails Is A Ghetto" Rant
A glimpse at our SVN log.
Please note that this is a private Rails project's SVN log - this NOT from the repo of any open source project. This is supposed to be funny... Ha Ha? A coworker of mine coincidentally came across this today while looking at our revision history. The "Ghetto." comment actually has nothing to do with the code itself. This is the revision history of umb.rb; a homegrown, rails-independent library for integrating with an external vendor from within a Rails app. The comment is bore of the developer's frustration of the vendor's "Ghetto." API. So laugh... Haha...
Oh yeah... I love Ruby and Rails... but I'm probably Ghetto.  I'm OK with that.
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3 Comments so far

  1. AkitaOnRails on January 9th, 2008

    I just ran this:

    svn log svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/mongrel –limit 30 | grep Ghetto

    And I didn’t see it. Unless there is another mongrel repository I am not aware of. And in this repository the last revision is 949, not even close to 7010.

  2. Luke Pillow on January 9th, 2008

    Thanks for the inquiry AkitaOnRails… I should have been more clear regarding what repository this is from. I’ve updated the post to more clearly state that this is a private SVN repository log.

    By the way… I really enjoy your helpful blog!

  3. Justin Winkler on January 9th, 2008

    *vouch* The API accessed via this file is indeed “Ghetto.”

    Name/Value pairs over XML over SOAP = NVPXMLSOAP? Mmmmmmm, I can smell my own brain matter cooking.

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