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

[George Good]

Well said.

On Wed, 6 Jul 2016 at 16:58 Steve <steve.laing at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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