The best part about the whole thing is there’s potentially 10 new web frameworks that can take on Rails. Hell, Mongrel spawned or helped 5 of those. My favorite of those frameworks is Merb which is literally “Mongrel plus Erb” but now it uses Erubis mostly. What I love about Merb is that it proved you could make a fast thread safe Ruby web framework with all the same ideas as Rails and using most of the Rails gear at the same time. However, the joke is that before Merb the Rails Core morons would scream up and down you can’t make Rails thread safe. Ezra however proved them all wrong by just writing a better Rails than Rails and all thanks to Mongrel being so easy to hack and work with.
If the Rails guys had given me even an ounce of respect and listened to me I might have helped them, but instead I wanted to make sure that they didn’t rule the world because when I listened to them shit talk about the community that made them famous I wanted to scream.
Alright, but let’s say I’m totally wrong and Koz is really a great coder who’s just staying under the radar? Alright, remember the change to Rails to allow this?
http://mysite.com/controller/action;editThat one little ’;’ was the cause of some serious pain for people since it’s actually not a proper request the way they interpret it. Requests with ’;’ in them are considered path parameters which are kind of like query parameters. Koz and DHH and crew added this, but I told them that’s not right, they should use something else like, uh, oh, maybe fucking ’/’. They ignored me. Did it anyway. Then when it was clearly obvious they were wrong (since Mongrel’s got a tight parser) who was out there defending this decision? Fucking Koz. Great programmers don’t defend stupid, they stamp it out and own up to their mistakes.
Fuck you Koz. You don’t speak.
