Thats not what I'm saying. If we are in the business of writing Rails apps and not innovative new IDE's we need to write code in a way that works with our exis

Thats not what I'm saying. If we are in the business of writing Rails apps and not innovative new IDE's we need to write code in a way that works with our existing tool belt. If we start blindly following patterns without being pragmatic about our current tool belt we may very well see the ruby equivalent of EJB's.