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Re: Show HN: Automated Rails development with Prelang

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Really appreciate the detailed feedback. * Email on generation is a good idea. Also, I don't have a Gem cache system yet which will help. * Flickering is because some of the inputs have to compute a lot of values @ Backbone model layer. Definitely opportunity for optimization. * Thanks :) * A lot of users have asked for user contributed features. The problem is it's hard to extract an API from my generation system bu…

Re the auth issues, why not let people clone / download a zip direct from you, skipping the github auth.

presumably each step is being done as a git commit, so there'd need to be a git install done locally for creation, then zipping, then cleanup afterwards. I don't think it's unreasonable, but I'm guessing there's some 'post to github' gem that's being used directly right now and this other option would require more work.

Re: Show HN: Automated Rails development with Prelang

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This is why I love Ruby. It's got all the built-in language features that allow one to perform this sort of abstraction, and a large-enough user base so that powerful ideas like this will eventually be implemented. I couldn't imagine anything like this existing in even Python.

http://www.web2py.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7lE-R16H4c

Yeah, not even close.
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