From: Phlip <phlip_cpp@...>
Date: 2001-12-31T14:01:27+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:29805] Re: FXRuby FreeRIDE Spike uploaded.

Holden Glova sez:

>> > 	http://www.rubyide.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?FoxSpike
> 
> Spike is like a quick proof of concept. Something done to find out what
> is really involved. Should be quick. Should give you a feel for what is
> involved. Should be thrown away once you have enough information about
> the problem.
> 
> It's an eXtreme programming term AFAIK.

A "SpikeSolution" means a scrap of disposable code that proves a concept.
But it disregards all your team's coding conventions (which on a healthy
project should include at least TestFirst, Refactoring, OnceAndOnlyOnce,
DependencyInversionPrinciple, InterfaceSegregationPrinciple, a Coding
Standard and a Config Manager like CVS).

It's called a "spike" because it's allowed to stick all the way thru what
on a healthy project would be decoupled layers. Consider a single function
that collected results from a Web page and pushed them into a database.
This spikes thru the GUI, Representation, Business and Storage layers.

Such a solution should be used as example code when The Real Thing gets
re-written in an environment that includes those conventions.

Here's my spike source; it requires an FXRuby with FXText:

	http://flea.sourceforge.net/textedit.rb

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