From: Enrique Comba Riepenhausen <ecomba@...>
Date: 2007-05-08T21:35:11+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] - Ruby Patterns

Hey Robert,

you are absolutely right with the statement that a design pattern is  
language independent, still the way to implement a specific design  
pattern differs from language to language...

Take the Observer for example. In Java for instance no one would  
think to implement this pattern from scratch (unless there is a very  
specific need not covered by the language) as it is available in the  
language (aka Observer and Observable).

I do strongly believe that we would profit in general by a body of  
knowledge in Ruby Patterns as there might be even patterns that only  
apply to Ruby development... and for those patterns that are commonly  
known (Visitor, Strategy, Factory Method, etc) we still can build  
some advice for other novice developers that need advice...

Thanks a lot for your input!

Cheers,

Enrique Comba Riepenhausen

On 8 May 2007, at 14:23, Robert Dober wrote:

> On 5/8/07, James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:
>> On May 8, 2007, at 6:58 AM, Enrique Comba Riepenhausen wrote:
>>
>> > Being so I just set up a web site http://www.rubypatterns.org where
>> > I hope we can all share pattern knowledge in Ruby. It is a wiki and
>> > be warned, there is no content at all there yet. Just a blank page
>> > to be edited by anyone so that we can start a pattern catalogue for
>> > all the Ruby developers out there...
>>
>> Just FYI:
>>
>> http://wiki.rubygarden.org/Ruby/page/show/ExampleDesignPatternsInRuby
>>
>> James Edward Gray II
>>
>>
> Enrique
> I just left my footprints on your Wiki, but I did not understand
> "pattern" in the strict sense of "Design Patterns".
> I strongly believe that Design Patterns are not related to specific  
> languages.
> [That does not mean at all that it is not interesting to see how you
> implement them best in Ruby, just that I did not interpret your idea
> as such]
>
> Cheers
> Robert
>
> -- 
> You see things; and you say Why?
> But I dream things that never were; and I say Why not?
> -- George Bernard Shaw
>