.rhtml vs .erb
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Can the people who read this rant please remember that this is not a very serious blog. In fact it’s mostly just me talking shit and this post is a prime example. I actually like the changes I’m dissing below, it’s nothing but a rant for rant’s sake and I have no idea why Google seems to be sending so many people to it - so don’t get all upset and leave nasty comments telling me I’m an idiot.
This is a personal blog of the most whimsical and useless kind, and I make no pretensions otherwise. Bear that in mind. Thanks! 
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Can someone please tell me what the point of moving from .rhtml to .html.erb is?
I mean seriously. There wasn’t a naming conflict, .rhtml isn’t the nicest extension on earth but it was pretty unambiguous as to what it was - ruby mixed with HTML.
.html.erb is if anything worse. What kind of a file has TWO extensions? Hell, why not have fucking ten. I sometimes like to put CSS and JS into my files as well, they’re feeling a bit left out - I guess that according to this new “all inclusive” philosophy they’re properly named index.html.css.js.erb.
And what the fuck does ERB even stand for? Embedded Ruby, right? Well that would be great if Ruby was two words. One acronym per word is the English standard. Yet another example of Rails flaunting the standards.
I just don’t see the point. Trying to enforce a taxonomy on what are by nature highly mixed and variable files is an exercise in futility. And furthermore, the .erb is completely superfluous within the already highly structured folder structure of a Rails app. What the hell else would it be?
Change for change’s sake. DHH is drunk on power!