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Bad publicity for Rails?

May 8th, 2006

I dunno about you people out in net land but I have been getting the following error quite a lot recently:

Application error
Rails application failed to start properly

Now I don’t know about you but this to me throws a BIG alarm signal which is steering me away from even looking at Rails, despite liking the sound of it. I’m just curious to know how many of you are noticing the same thing???

I do realise that these things happen and I have crashed apache a couple of times in my day but to be honest I haven’t seen many errors that have actually frustrated me in a while and this is definitely one that has sprung up. Is it because Rails maybe isn’t super stable or is it because there are a lot of new people using it? Even if it is on the uptake, I will forgo the odd error message for someone playing with new technology but when it is a business / mission critical website then you have just lost my custom for life, I will never go back.

Shame really…