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I'm sorry, at what point did I tell people to blindly do something? I'm offering ideas, suggestions, help to those who are and who've been in the same situation

I'm sorry, at what point did I tell people to blindly do something? I'm offering ideas, suggestions, help to those who are and who've been in the same situations I keep finding myself in (utterly painful Rails code). It's unfortunate that you feel no-one should even attempt to contribute to the community unless they've already contributed to the community, and that you feel that every bit of code should immediately be complete and perfect. In case you weren't aware, samples that don't require a ton of context are a particularly hard problem for informational posts like this. If you have feedback on the ideas I presented I'd be glad to hear them but I still fail to see how nit-picking an obviously early in-progress application proves anything.

AndyKelley 14y ago
At what point did I accuse you of telling people to blindly do something? I accused you of not having good support for the opinions in your article. That is all. I, too, keep finding myself in utterly painful Rails code. Now, if I may use your metaphor: Most of it is due to the blind leading the blind, per se. Programming novices discover some new rails thing, ruby thing ("method_missing" is the worst offender), or even a new programming pattern such as Command, and think it's the most incredible thing they've ever experienced, so they write a blog post about it. Other programming novices read the blog post and then go off on a rampage, overusing that concept and writing all the shitty rails code that I am currently maintaining. There you have the ruby community in a nutshell.