[ale] A Hal Fulton Blog article on CompSci degrees

[leam hall]

My understanding from the older thread was that a Rails project often has
gem dependencies and you have to make sure you check them all whey you try
to upgrade code. New gem versions might not work like the old ones used to.

On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 4:10 PM, DJ-Pfulio <DJPfulio at jdpfu.com> wrote:

> Performance of Rails doesn't matter for most companies. They just don't
> get the traffic.  For internal web-app development I think Ruby and
> rails is extremely productive. A larger, faster server for $10K more is
> cheaper than programming time. I've seen this solution many, many times.
>
> If you are FB, Twitter, Google - that matters, but if you are writing an
> internal app for GA-Power employees, it doesn't.
>
> Lots of Rails jobs out there. Most Ruby/Rails people I know do not have
> CS degrees.
>
> To be a programmer, you don't need a CS degree. Lots of CS degreed
> people never write any code in their work lives.
>
> On 09/17/2015 03:28 PM, leam hall wrote:
> > Didn't we have a discussion here last week or so about issues with
> Rails? I
> > seem to think it came off poorly.  :)
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 3:24 PM, Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> And if you ever get really good at Rails, you'll have lots of high
> >> paying work.
> >>
> >>
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