From: Wilson Bilkovich <wilsonb@...>
Date: 2006-10-02T04:32:49+09:00
Subject: Re: "Succinctness is Power", by Paul Graham

On 10/1/06, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb@cesmail.net> wrote:
> Martin Coxall wrote:
> > In any case, there's a question about about to what extent you *should*
> > host DSLs internally. It's my feeling that if you want to inline a DSL
> > in your code, make sure that language is still syntactically
> > recognizably a Ruby. Ruby on Rails is a classic example.
>
> The problem I have with the two best-known Ruby DSLs, Rails and Rake, is
> the somewhat non-intuitive mix of words that don't begin with colons,
> and symbols, which do. And Rails requires YAML in some places that are
> jarring to the reader. Why is the database connection description file
> in YAML and not in "a Ruby"?
>

DHH mentioned at Canada on Rails (if I recall) that having
database.yml instead of database.rb was basically a beginner's
mistake, and that distant-future plans include turning that into a
Ruby script.
So, at least the rails core team agrees with you. Heh.