From: chiaro scuro <kiaroskuro@...>
Date: 2006-05-03T00:43:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Sharp knives and glue

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uhm.. I have never used it in teams, but unit tests would be paramount.
Truly *Unit* tests if you work in group, with mocks and everything.

On 5/2/06, Leslie Viljoen <leslieviljoen@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have a friend that works in PHP all day and enjoys the language quite a
> lot. I have been
> recommending that he try Ruby, but he is bent on moving to Java because
> some
> of the people he
> works with are not good programmers and he thinks he needs a more
> restrictive environment
> in order to get some sanity in the code.
>
> I have read some posts about Ruby being a sharp knife and shooting
> yourself
> in the eye and
> I must admit, I have been burned by these things. My Rails project worked
> perfectly until
> I uploaded it to Textdrive and since Glue had been installed, the basic
> environment had been
> altered. By chance, Glue had defined a class with the same name as one of
> my
> Models and
> somehow it overrode my class when the project ran. They removed Glue when
> I
> asked and
> everything worked again, but it took me two days to find the problem.
>
> So I'd like to ask how many people out there use Ruby in teams - and how
> well Ruby has stood
> up with everyone doing their own thing. I'd especially like to know how i=
t
> goes when members
> of the team are not so experienced.
>
> Les
>
>


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