[ale] A Hal Fulton Blog article on CompSci degrees

[DJ-Pfulio]

Bundler.
rvm, rbenv and there is probably something newer now. It was been a few
years for me.

On 09/17/2015 04:14 PM, leam hall wrote:
> 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.
>>>>