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Good post Adam. Welcome to the darkside. I've done a lot of crazy things with Rails since leaving IBM - including hot patching modules into a rails server runn
by alttab 15y ago
Good post Adam. Welcome to the darkside.
I've done a lot of crazy things with Rails since leaving IBM - including hot patching modules into a rails server running on Windows using encrypted and signed YAML for module distribution. Ruby lets you do some crazy things... good or bad.
- derwiki 15y agoIt gives you a sharp enough knife to whittle the Statue of Liberty or cut your hand off. I've found this flexibility much more useful for debugging purposes (redefining methods on the fly) than writing easy-to-follow production code.
- alttab 15y agoRead this: http://www.amazon.com/Rails-AntiPatterns-Refactoring-Addison-Wesley-Professional/dp/0321604814 http://www.amazon.com/Rails-AntiPatterns-Refactoring-Addison... Easiest mistake in large rails apps is to let your controllers get too thick...