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		aaronbrethorst on April 14, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Running a Modern Startup on PHP Despite the author's denigration of Ruby for its "mess of symbols, implied parenthesis (sic), and lack of statement endings," they sure do depend on a lot of Ruby tools and Ruby-based services: Capistrano, Github, Lighthouse, Tender, and Campfire.

ceejayoz on April 15, 2011 | [–]

I don't like metalworking, but I depend on my car.

de90 on April 14, 2011 | | [–]

They didn't say ruby sucks for apps. They personally don't like the syntax.

troels on April 15, 2011 | [–]

Apart from Capistrano, those are applications. From a user point-of-view it shouldn't matter what those were written in.

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