Ask HN: What became of Steve Yegge's "Rhino on Rails"?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1106492

by btucker • 16 years ago

33 18 16 years ago

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http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/06/rhino-on-rails.html

I just remembered about this and can't find any recent info besides Yegge calling it "a transitional thing"[1] in '08. It made a big splash after he announcement at FooCamp '07. Is it actually in use within Google? Has it or will it ever be released? Anyone know anything?

[1] http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/06/rhinos-and-tigers.html

capablanca2• 16 years ago

What became of Steve Yegge?

zyb09• 16 years ago

I heard he's stuck in a fish tank, swimming along the edges of the glass to find a way out.

cmallen• 16 years ago

Could someone please explain this (joke?) to me?

Confusion• 16 years ago

He's at Google and recently announced their new static analysis framework for Python: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1054036

capablanca2• 16 years ago

Sure... but I wish I could still read him sometimes. There is no blogger I enjoy to read these days (mostly they are too techinical...)

litewulf• 16 years ago

I use it. I'm working on open sourcing it.

I kind of worry that the timing for open sourcing it now isn't the greatest, since with the advent of all sorts of commonjs bits, people probably already have their own frameworks. Also, the implementation lags behind what Rails looks like now, so its a bit... weird.

dchest• 16 years ago

Don't worry about the timing; people are always looking for better software, better programming languages, and better frameworks.

Tichy2• 16 years ago

Opening it up might speed up development, to catch up with Rails?

I don't think there are any killer web frameworks for JavaScript yet?

tlrobinson• 16 years ago

Note there's also ActiveJS: http://activerecordjs.org/

I'm not sure if it's being actively maintained though.

kmt2• 16 years ago

And how about node.js on rails? Anyone working on it? Maybe with MongoDB backend? It looks like a convenient fit to me.

Tichy2• 16 years ago

Now I have to ask, what exactly makes a framework a rails framework?

jrockway• 16 years ago

If the default "it works" page has rounded corners and no text smaller than 32pt, it's a rails framework.

steveklabnik• 16 years ago

If I had to come up with a definition, it would be "Full stack web framework with sensible defaults, that emphasizes DRY and COC." As always, any time you reduce something, it's lossy...

kmt2• 16 years ago

I think you got two good answers. They aren't even conflicting, just presenting the two sides of the coin.

flashgordon• 16 years ago

actually what became of Steve Yegge?

Ask HN: What became of Steve Yegge's "Rhino on Rails"?

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