[LRUG] Code samples: To do or not to do

[Chris Parsons]

On 7 Apr 2009, at 16:02, Murray Steele wrote:

> 2009/4/7 Chris Parsons <chris at edendevelopment.co.uk>
>> How many specifically ruby shops are there around the UK which are  
>> like Murray described? I know plenty of web shops in general are  
>> like this, but I was under the impression that the standard is  
>> higher in Rubyland. Perhaps not.
>
> I think you have a good point here.  I was talking about software  
> and development in general, not exclusively Ruby.  I'd hope that  
> Ruby was better in this regard than the rest of the software  
> community, but I don't really know.


My frustration that 'average' or 'bad' web shops are usually entirely  
silent on these sorts of forums. We only tend to hear about their  
practice from disgruntled former contractors or disgruntled former  
customers. It's often hard to know if we're doing the right things as  
there's often too much consensus between those who are willing to  
discuss the issues at all. Not always though, thankfully :) [1]

I was saying last night at Winchester Web Scene[2] that we should have  
some sort of "Ramsay's web shop nightmares" :)

Chris

[1] See the recent TDD thread for a great discussion
[2] http://search.twitter.com/search?q=winchesterweb

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