Flexible Rails

Chad Fowler quoted Gandhi at RailsConf 2007; I think it's fitting that I quote the same quote now too:

"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi

So, we've gone from being ignored, to being ridiculed, to being fought.

The hilarious thing is that I'm advocating using HIS FRAMEWORK. (Well, a subset of it anyway ;-) So, I'm not trying to fight him or Rails, and he is fighting with a use of his own framework.

(The quote also doesn't apply, since I'm not trying to "win": I'm advocating Rails!)

Update: I just realized that it is extremely possible that DHH has never heard of using Flex and Rails together. He wasn't at my BOF at RailsConf 2007, after all :-) So maybe this is all a big misunderstanding, and tomorrow DHH will be raving about how great it is that Rails can be used to power Flex applications :-)

Update #2: I may have overreacted. See DHH's comment and my reply around comments #30-35 in this thread. Before you know it, DHH will be writing a Flex front end to Basecamp and realize what he's been missing ;)