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Ruby on Rails is an open-source web development framework optimized for programmer happiness and maintaining sustainable productivity. Many things are defined by convention, freeing you from having to re-invent things to stay productive.

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Should I refactor this rails application?

I have taken over the code base for a ruby-on-rails application which relies very heavily on ActiveRecord callbacks to perform domain rules. The application can be compared to a bank application, whe …
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Has test driven development (TDD) actually benefited a real world project?

I see some benefit to writing tests for some things, but very few. And while I like the idea of writing the test first, I find I spend substantially more time trying to debug my tests to get them t …
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What ASP.NET MVC can do and Ruby on Rails can't?

In my limited experience, the main advantage to ASP.NET MVC is that it is a compiled language. This allows you to detect some programming bugs already at compilation, where Ruby has to rely on detecti …
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