Oh, and re:inflammatory blog post: just because Rails isn't good at this now, doesn't mean it can't be. Working on it for Rails 4!
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Oh, and re:inflammatory blog post: just because Rails isn't good at this now, doesn't mean it can't be. Working on it for Rails 4!