Once again after several hours of work I find myself cursing rails, why oh why does it never play nice with anything? After finally getting the server running in terms of capistrano, a working gem set and no more issues with log ownership rails found yet another way to fuck up. Apparently interacting with mysql is just too much to ask, even when the database, password and username are correct it still spits out lovely access denied errors.
Is there seriously nothing rails can do without fucking up? I don’t get it, its a beautiful language in concept yet actually making it function as intended seems to be a whole bucket load more effort than any reasonable person would spend trying to make it interact with things that just work with anything else. And that’s withot even considering testing and all the shit that has put me through over the past few months.
I want to get rails, I really do, it seems like it should be real fucking useful once its learned, especially in terms of potential time savings yet the longer I spend trying, the longer it takes to get anything to play nice. Its sickening, the entire point of the language is supposed to be convention over configuration, yet I’m spending more time burried in various configuration files just trying to make it function. What the fuck is with that?
Anyways… I just needed a rant, and thought it could at least help keep a few of you from ever delving into the hell that is rails.