[LRUG] The puzzling phenomenon of the Rails dev who hardly knows Ruby

[Steve]

I think it's commonplace to copy and paste from Stack Overflow and there
are many valid reasons to do so. For example, to avoid wasting time
reinventing the wheel on a common problem. I'd say we're all copy and paste
programmers at some point in the day or at least in our careers.
It's also common to start out working with Rails rather than purely with
Ruby, that's no bad thing, if you know enough to get the work you can
progress to learning the underlying language.
A while ago people would know the Java API by heart, taking Sun
Certification (TM) exams to prove it, it didn't automatically make them
great Spring developers.
My point being we often start out learning the most practical thing to get
us work.

On 6 July 2016 at 16:14, Nicholas Johnson <me at nicholasjohnson.com> wrote:

> Two words - Stack Overflow. When someone is a copy-paste programmer, they
> can get quite a lot done quite quickly, and come over as proficient to the
> untrained managerial eye, but if anything unexpected happens they will be
> lost. I sometimes work with quite old programmers who have been
> copy-pasters all their lives and are terrified someone will find out. It's
> actually quite horrible for them.
>
> On 6 July 2016 at 12:36, gvim <gvimrc at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I hear of this a lot - the Rails dev who hardly knows Ruby and I'm left
>> scratching my head. How on earth can anyone become proficient in a complex
>> framework like Rails without understanding the language it's written in?
>>
>> Someone please enlighten me.
>>
>> gvim
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