Rails Envy Podcast - Episode #030: 05/07/2008
by gregg on May 07, 2008
Episode 030. Steven Bristol steps in for Jason this week for this information packed episode. Last week some of our stories got screwed up by the microphone we were using, so this week we're back with extra ruby flavor.
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Making up for last week’s brevity, huh? Great podcast!
If Twitter publicly claims that it has already been using all the different technologies other than Rails for quite some time, why do the Rails community still use it as an example of a large Rails app?
Is Twitter a Rails app? How many % of Twitter is Rails?
You guys - please have a show featuring BOTH Steven and Jason. But make sure to include a “don’t listen to this while you’re driving” label on there. : )
Thanks for mentioning my link library! You also pronounced my name almost right. It’s not so easy, I guess ;) So thanks again!
Thanks for the link guys :)
Do you guys have a preferred way of taking suggestions for things to feature on the podcast?
Noel: We love to get suggestions about things to feature and you can email podcast@railsenvy.com.
Thanks for the link. I definitely have a Wikipedia database dump on my harddrive as well. Hopefully this API will save others from having to data munge on that giant file.
People using ‘Scalability’ and ‘Twitter’ as keywords to bash RoR are probably people who never had the joy of working for high traffic projects themselves.
A few days ago someone tried to seed FUD in a german business oriented rails forum - at the end he was outed to sell “Grails” services and wants to convince people to use Grails instead of Rails.
When I asked him about the scaling costs of Java and why so few High-Traffic Sites use java in their frontends I got now answer.
His resume does not show any relevant (read as: high traffic/popular) project so his ‘scaling nightmares’ are propably pathological.
Dang. I totally blogged about blocks and helpers, like well over a year ago:
http://beautifulpixel.com/2007/2/23/helpers-and-blocks
Oh well, no worries. Keep up the great the podcast guys!
I recently worked on a project that heavily used exif data for getting rotation information plus other photographer data (keywords, etc). I developed a VERY basic plugin to deal with the exif data named, with all my own shame, exiffu mainly because I made it to interact specifically with exiffu.
I will probably move it over to github so people can modify and make it wonderful to their own desire, basically the big advantage is giving specific methods in the model that can grab exif data out of the file.
Hope that helps an exifers out there.
http://exiffu.rubyforge.org/