‘I set out to prove those Rails folks wrong’.
Steven
R. Baker was “…depressed by web development”, but he also pretty sure
that “…sophisticated applications wouldn’t be any easier to build
with Rails”. So what did he do? He gave it a try:
So
I did what any self-respecting skeptic would do: I set out to prove
those Rails folks wrong. I was asked to write a web application for
customer and work order management. I decided that this would be a good
chance to learn Rails, and prove those Rails folks wrong. Rolling with
Ruby on Rails told me that I would write web applications ten times
faster using Rails. I prepared a schedule as though I was writing the
app with PHP, and quoted my client one
quarter of the estimated time (three weeks). In the space of that three
weeks I went from having not written a line of Ruby outside of text
book examples, to developing a fully functioning (and mostly tested)
Rails application for a client.
The borg is at work. Baker finishes off with:
In mid January, I set out to prove those rails folks wrong. Now I’m one of them. Prove me wrong.