[LRUG] Your Code is My Hell

[Max Williams]

BTW when i say "team" i mean "team of ruby devs", not including designers
etc.

On 26 August 2011 12:31, Max Williams <toastkid.williams at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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