From: Daniel Harple <dharple@...>
Date: 2006-05-03T01:13:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Sharp knives and glue

On May 2, 2006, at 5:33 PM, Leslie Viljoen wrote:

> 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.

I wonder why Rails doesn't put your app in it's own top-level module  
(MyApp::Page, etc.) -- it is bad design not to.

Glue can only alter your environment if you require it.

-- Daniel