From: Leslie Viljoen <leslieviljoen@...>
Date: 2006-05-03T03:37:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Sharp knives and glue

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> 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 ho=
w
> > well Ruby has stood
> > up with everyone doing their own thing. I'd especially like to know how
> it
> > goes when members
> > of the team are not so experienced.
> >
> > Les
> >
> >



On 5/2/06, chiaro scuro <kiaroskuro@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.


Truly you are correct, unit tests would be great for a team. Although they
would not
have helped with my example problem, which is what bothered me about it.
I am wiser now to environmental issues though, and if I faced a similar
problem
in future I think I'd try changing Class.new to log each time an object is
created.


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