Ha ha. I loved the part about Webrick and lighttpd coming next :)

I just wanted to note that Urban Dictionary actually does this.

It's telling that so many programming related April Fools jokes have been Ruby oriented in some way.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you... then they fight you, then you win.

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you... then they fight you, then you win."

Sometimes they laugh at you and keep laughing ;-)

seriously though, it is very tiring that the above quote from Gandhi is being used by the defender of every half assed idea as some kind of validation. (I am not saying that ruby or ROR is half assed). Sometimes things people laugh at are worthy of ridicule. And ruby/ROR has been around a while now, it should have moved to the "then you win" by now (and stayed there).

Well, then I guess I'll make your day with this Lao Tzu quote from the Tao Te King:

When the wise man hears the Tao, he practices it

When the normal man hears the Tao, he listens to it

When the fool hears the Tao, he laughs at it

But if if were not laughed at, it would not be the true Tao.

Depends on your definition of "win."

DHH already claimed Rails had gone through all of those stages even back in 2007: http://casperfabricius.com/site/2007/09/18/railsconf2007-dhh...

If this is not a joke, it's funnier than an April Fools hoax.

This is funny, I actually had to do this.

I had a flash app hard coded to look for a particular .php file. It would have been a PITA to get the source for that, so... just figure out what it expects, and Rails route it. This approach is handy to know about.

That's pretty funny.

Django can also do this very easily without the redirect.

You can do it easily in Rails without a redirect too, and without regex as used in Django.

In routes.rb for example: map.login '/login.php', :controller => 'sessions', :action => 'new'

But I suppose that wouldn't make for a very funny April Fool's joke.