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" ... all these ruby testing fads " What makes something a fad or not?

• cageface 16y ago
  When everybody claiming it's the next big thing decides six months later that it's too cumbersome and complicated and must immediately be replaced with the next shiny new thing. The ruby community seems to suffer from an acute case of magpie syndrome.
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  • cmdrkeene 16y ago
    Sometimes it's magpie syndrome, sometimes it's born out of a real need or deficiency in real systems. Kaizen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaizen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaizen) is a theme I see on a lot of good ruby teams. People should always be looking to improve things but for real reasons, not for novelty. It's a fine line to draw sometimes, but in my opinion, steak eliminates a lot of the pain of cucumber by using tools my team already knows. Seems like a win to me.