40. (with egg)

Just a quick note on the Ruby on Rails irony: there's hardly any ruby to write. This is great for getting things done quickly, but not so great when people really want to learn ruby. A roving consultant friend of ours has dropped by several times to pair program with us, but he's getting a bit frustrated because there is so little ruby to dive into. "It's all JavaScript and CSS and HTML and all that crap!" he says. Right now we're doing mostly UI overhauls, so that's true! It's amazing how little application logic ruby we've written lately compared to the amount of unit and functional test ruby, and compared to the amount of JavaScript, there's no comparison.

Of course, this a good thing -- when the application is solid, you can spend lots of time implementing UIs that designers create.

While chatting about this over lunch someone noted that, since we are in a phase of not doing much RoR and instead writing lots of JavaScript, we're not on Rails... we're in Jails.