Didn't Zed Shaw predict this before? Anyhow, personal recent experience on using a plugin that is an API to some webservice: - Lots of static methods - Code

Didn't Zed Shaw predict this before? Anyhow, personal recent experience on using a plugin that is an API to some webservice: - Lots of static methods - Code structure is awful - Documentation is non-existent ... and I rarely use Rails let alone learn Ruby yet I can see how horrible that plugin is. I heard I'm not alone when it comes to the discussion of the quality of plugins out there. I don't mean to bad-mouth Rails framework because it is a well-thought project (let's not discuss the internal code). But as many who have been in this industry for a while, we kind of know that this is coming sooner or later. Python code, in many places, seem to have a good balance of pragmatism, UNIX culture, and discipline. Having said that, Rails 3.x seems to mark a change in attitude from the Rails core team. They're starting to address issues and stabilize the framework for the better. Let's hope the rest would clean up as well.