The Rails Plugin Directory now has over 150 plugins and RDoc support too: http://www.bencurtis.com/archives/2006/05/150-rails-plugins/ -- Benjamin Curtis http://www.bencurtis.com/ http://www.tesly.com/ -- Collaborative test case management http://www.agilewebdevelopment.com/ -- Resources for the Rails community
Nice work. Thank you. Michael
> The Rails Plugin Directory now has over 150 plugins and RDoc supportI wonder: is this really a good news: 150 plugins, and counting?! How many in 6 months? It would currently take 2.5 hour just to spend 1 minute per plugin to read its name, description and very very briefly check its home site. Where is the good old "Less is more" gone? More is less. Alain
I couldn''t disagree more. I take the number to mean that there is a super strong community of users who are willing to put the time into producing re-usable code. I''ve only written two small plugins, but I know I could have completed the task I was using them for much faster if I hadn''t taken the time to package the code into a plugin. Look at all the modules on CPAN. A lot of people still use perl today just for the fact that they have access to 1000''s (10,000s?) of modules. Does the number of perl modules make perl bloated? I think the fact there are a lot of plugins is great. It helps to keep the core rails framework from becoming too fat. This way you only have to use a plugin if you want. On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 20:29 +0200, Alain Ravet wrote:> > The Rails Plugin Directory now has over 150 plugins and RDoc support > > I wonder: is this really a good news: 150 plugins, and counting?! How > many in 6 months? > It would currently take 2.5 hour just to spend 1 minute per plugin to > read its name, description and very very briefly check its home site. > > Where is the good old > "Less is more" > gone? > > More is less. > > Alain > > _______________________________________________ > Rails mailing list > Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/railsCharlie Bowman http://www.recentrambles.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060526/39eb3562/attachment.html
> > The Rails Plugin Directory now has over 150 plugins and RDoc support > > I wonder: is this really a good news: 150 plugins, and counting?! How many in > 6 months?It is if you need something from one of them :-)> It would currently take 2.5 hour just to spend 1 minute per plugin to read > its name, description and very very briefly check its home site.subscribe to the feed... I spend about 2 minutes a day... i don''t look at them that closely though... http://feeds.feedburner.com/RubyOnRailsPlugins -philip
Hmm, "less is more" is all well and good for doing a specific job, but surely all this availability of code is a good thing. If you want to find something which does a job you need doing, you search for it, find it, install it and run it, so you don''t need to do it yourself. That is "less is more". -N On 26/05/06, Alain Ravet <arav2132@biz.tiscali.be> wrote:> > The Rails Plugin Directory now has over 150 plugins and RDoc support > > I wonder: is this really a good news: 150 plugins, and counting?! How > many in 6 months? > It would currently take 2.5 hour just to spend 1 minute per plugin to > read its name, description and very very briefly check its home site. > > Where is the good old > "Less is more" > gone? > > More is less. > > Alain > > _______________________________________________ > Rails mailing list > Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails >
Alain Ravet wrote:>> The Rails Plugin Directory now has over 150 plugins and RDoc support > > I wonder: is this really a good news: 150 plugins, and counting?! How > many in 6 months? > It would currently take 2.5 hour just to spend 1 minute per plugin to > read its name, description and very very briefly check its home site. > > Where is the good old > "Less is more" > gone? > > More is less. > > AlainI don''t have a problem with all these plugins. They solve the kind of problems they were designed to, add functionality and cover those 5% of edge cases. The problem comes when you have 10 plugins that do the same thing. I don''t think we''re there yet and with sites like Benjamin''s I don''t see it happening. Extracting code/logic from working applications and easily distributing it is turning out some great plugins. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.