[LRUG] Your Code is My Hell

[Max Williams]

Hi all.  I'm curious - how many of you have worked on large-team ruby
projects?  The largest team i've ever worked on doing ruby is 3 people.  I
suspect that the questions we've been pondering in this thread get more
relevant the larger the team gets.

2011/8/26 J. Pablo Fernández <pupeno at pupeno.com>

>
>
> On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 12:09, Glenn Gillen <glenn at rubypond.com> wrote:
>>
>>  > (This email is intended as a cultural observation and does not express
>> > or imply a position on the merits of testing nor on the quality of
>> > Ruby's code or its developers.  I'm very happy working in Ruby, I
>> > think that on the whole it's at least as well designed as any other
>> > competing platform, and I don't want anyone to assume that my moment's
>> > snarkiness was an indicator of general dissatisfaction, because it's
>> > not)
>>
>> How could we make it better? I have a feeling that python does better but
>> I've no real experience to support it. I wonder if the the "Readme Driven
>> Development" approach would be better, especially for gems. All of my
>> thoughts are pretty fluffy though and could really use critical appraisal of
>> someone outside both the ruby and x community.
>
>
> Here I have a question and I mean it as an honest and humble question...
> what is it that you want to change and why?
>
> If I was doing PHP I'd be worried about all the messy code because most of
> it will be on libraries I have to use (or re-write). In Ruby, surely there
> are messy projects*, but generally libraries, gems, are in good shape and
> that's what I care about. Surely we have problems, we are fashion driven and
> sometimes the popular options feel weird (to me that is, of course).
>
> It's impossible to keep other people from writing messy projects and...
> it's actually part of learning, to write messy projects. Some people never
> grow up from that, but as long as they stay away from my code, I'm happy.
>
> I suppose it is a problem if you are a consultant that gets hired to add
> the final touches to projects, changing projects no a weekly basis.
>
> * reading code samples from applicants have been... enlightening... for
> example... I seen an app with only one controller: application_controller...
> with tens of actions.
> --
> J. Pablo Fernández <pupeno at pupeno.com> (http://pupeno.com)
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