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DHH - if you guys keep working so hard on your custom platform one day you just might be able to reproduce the client-side JSON+JavaScript stack!

Keep up the hard work!

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Is that supposed to be a slam? I've been working on "custom" platforms for the better part of a decade.

Hence why you're trying at all costs to make it work with things it wasn't designed for?

I'm pretty sure he knows what it's designed for better than you given the fact he's the one who designed it.

Rails was literally lifted out of Basecamp into a standalone framework that works great for CRUD-style apps. You might personally prefer another approach or think this design failed but Rails was definitely designed for this use case.

And you work for "Mozilla Labs"? As a volunteer, or do they go ahead and hire nerds with no manners and silly notions about entitlement and technology?

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