Small, Opinionated Pieces, Loosely Joined

Martin Fowler on recomposing the enterprise...

Rails will do what it does, and will not complicate itself to support things it doesn't like...

I confess I like this opinionated attitude...

Rails is right, I think, to ignore the enterprisey world, but that doesn't mean that Ruby should...

there's a danger that people will hear the opinionated nature of Rails as a statement about Ruby, and thus give the impression that Ruby isn't a suitable enterprise glue. That would be a shame.