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Andrzej on Software is a personal blog at andrzejonsoftware.blogspot.com about programming and career. Since 2008, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 54 times, most often “Be careful with "the Rails way"”. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.

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9HN people?
2008–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 15 in 2011

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog's 2011 post arguing that Rails does not follow the original MVC pattern, where the model should hold domain business logic rather than just database access.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Thoughts on software

Most-linked posts?

  1. Be careful with "the Rails way"
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-04-15
  2. DCI and Rails
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-02-11

What Hacker News says?

  1. It's more than a definition issue. You haven't used MVC, you have probably used Model2. The post we're discussing is about MVC. http://andrzejonsoftware.blogspot.com/2011/09/rails-is-not-m...

    Comment linking /2011/09/rails-is-not-mvc.html

    on “MVC is dead, it's time to MOVE on”
  2. Submitted Rails is not MVC as a story · 138 points

    HN discussion
  3. I'm "thinking in DCI" for 2 years now. At GameBoxed ( http://gameboxed.com/ ) we've got a Rails app that uses a lot of .extend on every request. It's in production for 1.5 year now. It's a backend for multiple social games (one backend app for many CoffeeScript frontends). It's not huge in terms of traffic and performance needs. We implemented it with a DCI-like architecture in mind. It was helpful at the beginning.…

    Comment linking /2011/08/dci-patterns-how-to-write-dci-contexts.html

    on “"DCI" in Ruby is completely broken”
  4. Submitted Stop hating Java as a story · 115 points

    HN discussion
  5. The server-based MVC pattern adopted in Rails is not the original one described for use in interfaces, it could be considered a misinterpretation. https://andrzejonsoftware.blogspot.com/2011/09/rails-is-not-... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3035549 A model is supposed to be a domain model, the business logic of the app, not simply a database access layer. Your logic should reside in the model layer, sort of l…

    Comment linking /2011/09/rails-is-not-mvc.html

    on “UIs Are Not Pure Functions of the Model – React.js and Cocoa Side by Side (2018)”
  6. Submitted MVC with CoffeeScript as a story · 46 points

    HN discussion
  7. Async standups may be a good alternative, you can do them over email or on Slack/Hipchat/Flowdock. Different rules apply in async standups than in meeting-like standups. There's more focus on what your daily status can bring to other people. I wrote about some tips here: http://andrzejonsoftware.blogspot.com/2014/05/async-standups...

    Comment linking /2014/05/async-standups.html

    on “A Guide for the Perfect Daily Standup ”
  8. Submitted Non-framework approach to JavaScript apps - hexagonal.js as a story · 30 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Rails is still cool as a story · 11 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted How can Rails react to the rise of the JavaScript applications? as a story · 10 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Frontend is a separate application as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted 2 problems with Cucumber as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Angular or Ember? Congratulations, you've already won. as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted DCI and Rails, lessons learnt as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Applying chess lessons to programming as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted How to write a Ruby-related book – the tools as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted DCI and Rails as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Andrzej on Software: DCI and Rails as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted Be careful with "the Rails way" as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted Single Page Applications fight - video and a transcript as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted Why do projects take so long? as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted Rails legacy applications as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted How we ended up organizing a Ruby conference as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted Typical Rails bugs as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  25. Submitted Frontend first as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  26. Submitted What is a framework? as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  27. Submitted Account.transfer(..) - is it good OOP? as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  28. Submitted Events in acceptance tests as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  29. Submitted An application or a set of resources? as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  30. Submitted Remote pair programming as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion

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