Ask Slashdot: Is Ruby on Rails Maintainable?
Posted by Cliff on Wednesday December 21, @12:51PM
from the would-you-want-to-edit-the-code-later dept.
kale77in asks: "I''ve become a big fan of Ruby over the past few
months, but I''m not at all sure about Ruby On Rails. Automatic code
generation sets of alarm bells in my mind; so that, to RoR''s promise of
''Web Development that Doesn''t Hurt'', I automatically
add ''...until you have to maintain it''. On the other hand,
some writers and coders I respect (like the Pragmatic Programming mob) seem to
be fans. I''ve mainly written generators in Python, to produce
PHP/SQL/Java from SQL files, but I''ve always gone back to
well-constructed objects, where extension and overloading offers more precise
and maintainable customization than auto-generation allows. So is Rails just a
nice RAD tool for disposable, cookie-cutter apps (which have a place, of
course)? Is high-level generation just a bad OO substitute? And what has your
experience of Rails'' maintainability been?"
http://ask.slashdot.org/askslashdot/05/12/21/153252.shtml?tid=156&tid=4
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