From: Leslie Viljoen <leslieviljoen@...>
Date: 2006-05-03T04:47:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Sharp knives and glue

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On 5/2/06, Leslie Viljoen <leslieviljoen@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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 on=
e
> > 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
> > 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 the=
y
> 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 i=
s
> created.


Hmmm, I see also from other posts that $VERBOSE=3Dtrue will report when
methods
are redefined, so there ya arr.

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> > Chiaroscuro
> > ---
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