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An Interview with David Heinemeier Hansson (O'ReillyNet)

O'ReillyNet interviews David Heinemeier Hansson, the developer of Ruby on Rails. "Rails is opinionated software. It eschews placing the old ideals of software in a primary position. One of those ideals is flexibility—the notion that we should try to accommodate as many approaches as possible, that we shouldn't pass judgment on one form of development over another. Well, Rails does, and I believe that's why it works."
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An Interview with David Heinemeier Hansson (O'ReillyNet)

Posted Aug 31, 2005 16:56 UTC (Wed) by cventers (subscriber, #31465) [Link]

That's why Rails works for a very specific class of applications... they
decided to tackle a very specific problem.

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