From: Leslie Viljoen <leslieviljoen@...>
Date: 2006-05-03T04:28:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Sharp knives and glue

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On 5/2/06, Daniel Harple <dharple@generalconsumption.org> wrote:
>
> 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.


I still don't understand how it happened. AFAIR it was my model object,
which
Rails generates using the database, so perhaps it was a one-time side-effec=
t
caused by Rails magic and I should not complain about it. I would have done
more investigations but they removed Glue and everything worked so I
released the code and the client was happy.

Oh, I see there's plenty of complaining about Glue here:
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.general/110876
so let's not whip that dead horse any more. For all I know it's been fixed
for
years.

Anyway, the real issue for me is that I'd like to say to my friend "hey, al=
l
this
dynamic stuff doesn't make team programming harder" - but I've never
done it so I can't say it.

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