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Ruby is really good at writing DSLs, Javascript sucks at it. I'll happily admin that this is user error, but I always have trouble editing Gruntfiles when I st
by combray 12y ago
Ruby is really good at writing DSLs, Javascript sucks at it.
I'll happily admin that this is user error, but I always have trouble editing Gruntfiles when I start to bring in other packages. Adding an additional task to a Gruntfile is way harder in than Rake, or make, or even Ant for that matter, mainly because you are dealing with hand editing a huge JSON blob.
Tweaking the file to add a different path in or whatever is fine, but there are many times where I wanted to to copy and paste something in to make it work, and I spent as much time fiddling with the format of the js file as I did solving my problem.
A lot of people love grunt, but I'm not one of them.
- drinchev 12y agoThanks for your reply. I've been working with maven and make so far. I'm not used to do much stuff in Ruby, so that's why I don't consider Rake files for a big benefit of my working process. Anyway I consider your points valid, although I also think you can remove a lot of the boilerplate ( Copy-Paste code ) by introducing some variables to your Grunt build. I personally use Assemble [1] and I find it pretty decent for generating static content websites. Good to know there's a good alternative in the ruby world. 1: https://github.com/assemble/assemble https://github.com/assemble/assemble