# Daily Kos cancels Rails redesign

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/daily-kos-cancels-rails-redesign/90798>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [April 1, 2007, 8:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/daily-kos-cancels-rails-redesign/90798 "2007-04-01T20:58:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![jeff](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@jeff](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jeff)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2007, 8:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/daily-kos-cancels-rails-redesign/90798/1 "2007-04-01T20:58:22Z")

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> **[What happened to Cheney??? A heart attack?](https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2007/4/1/125353/2269)**
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> Daily Kos is a progressive news site that fights for democracy by giving our audience information and resources to win elections and impact government. Our coverage is assiduously factual, ethical, and unapologetically liberal. We amplify what we...

Obviously they can decide how they like whether it’s worth the effort to  
redesign their backend completely or use an existing platform, but…

“Ruby-based platforms were tossed out because the fact that integers are  
objects, not primitives, just seemed weird.”

…?

Jeff

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**Author:** ![jeff](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@jeff](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jeff)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2007, 8:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/daily-kos-cancels-rails-redesign/90798/2 "2007-04-01T20:59:29Z")

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Jeff C.man wrote:

> [What happened to Cheney??? A heart attack?](http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/4/1/125353/2269)
> 
> Obviously they can decide how they like whether it’s worth the effort to  
> redesign their backend completely or use an existing platform, but…
> 
> “Ruby-based platforms were tossed out because the fact that integers are  
> objects, not primitives, just seemed weird.”
> 
> …?
> 
> Jeff

(Also–check the date this was posted on.)

Jeff