Per cloc it's actually 1093 lines of C (plus some more in the printf.c file), and generally speaking hundreds of lines of C is the equivalent of thousands of li

Per cloc it's actually 1093 lines of C (plus some more in the printf.c file), and generally speaking hundreds of lines of C is the equivalent of thousands of lines of assembly. In any case, the complexity of the called function is exactly what we're discussing — it's why the author objects to "User.create(params[:user])"