But rails was modern backend development back then, it offered an alternative to a world full of mod_perl, PHP4, Java servlets with JSP and XSLT.
Having had the displeasure of working on all those stacks it's hard to overstate how transformative rails was at the time for me.
Built in unit testing is one thing, not having to write a java class to expose a custom function to an xslt processor in order to format a string is something else.
Having had the displeasure of working on all those stacks it's hard to overstate how transformative rails was at the time for me.
Built in unit testing is one thing, not having to write a java class to expose a custom function to an xslt processor in order to format a string is something else.