From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2005-07-27T02:20:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Factory Patterns in Ruby

Jim Freeze wrote:
> * Jim Weirich <jim@weirichhouse.org> [2005-07-26 13:11:43 +0900]:
> 
> 
>>On Monday 25 July 2005 10:17 pm, Lyndon Samson wrote:
>>
>>>I know there are a few IOC containers in the RubyWorld, but they dont
>>>seem to be overly popular.
>>
>>There is a joke going around the Ruby community that there are more DI/IoC 
>>frameworks in Ruby than there are people actually using the frameworks.
> 
> 
> Yes, and aren't there only two DI/IoC frameworks that exist? ;)

Well, I account for one DI framework (MinDI [1]) and zero users.... I
still haven't been involved in a project that had the right kind of
complexity to justify DI.

But DI frameworks are fun to develop. Maybe we should have a ruby quiz
to develop DI frameworks, and then we will have 20 more frameworks and
no more users ;)


[1] http://www.ruby-talk.org/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/120297