This is common in a lot of Rails shops - they are so proud of the extensive Cucumber tests, of the endless gems required just to run the tests, of the layer-upo

This is common in a lot of Rails shops - they are so proud of the extensive Cucumber tests, of the endless gems required just to run the tests, of the layer-upon-layer of crap, and look all the tests passed, it must be good right? Wrong. The worst code I have ever seen. Written to pass tests, unmaintainable, fragile as hell due to the turtles-all-the-way-down architecture of relying on a thousand-and-one third party gems (and the checkins showing how frequently that very same code barfed and broke 'vital' things'). Agile is a pox upon software development, but hey, it sells books, provides employment for otherwise unemployable 'project managers' and finally putting to rest any semblance of engineering in software and systems today.