where is this Rails train going? it used to be cool, but it looks like it's heading towards the chasm now.
posts like this just encourage my opinion about the Merb merge with Rails being a disaster which helped Rails transform from "PHP in Ruby" to something beautiful to work with, while leading to self-destruction of Merb.
Rails gained a lot of traction and is now abandoning any good decision Yehuda and other great developers made.
this post simply sums up to: "I don't know how to test-first Rails applications, and I've invented Rails. we're abandoning test-first." admitting you have a problem is a first step in fixing it, but this is not going to fix it in the long run.
I've felt the same way for a long time too. The Merb merge had more to do with soothing large egos and indulging some architecture astronauts than it did about making it a better framework for developers to work with. Now it feels a lot like the over-engineered Java frameworks it was designed to liberate us from.
posts like this just encourage my opinion about the Merb merge with Rails being a disaster which helped Rails transform from "PHP in Ruby" to something beautiful to work with, while leading to self-destruction of Merb. Rails gained a lot of traction and is now abandoning any good decision Yehuda and other great developers made.
this post simply sums up to: "I don't know how to test-first Rails applications, and I've invented Rails. we're abandoning test-first." admitting you have a problem is a first step in fixing it, but this is not going to fix it in the long run.