Comments on: A fresh perspective http://www.pluginaweek.org/2008/05/19/a-fresh-perspective/ Plugins worth their weight in rubies. Mon, 14 Jun 2010 01:03:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: aaron http://www.pluginaweek.org/2008/05/19/a-fresh-perspective/comment-page-1/#comment-7 aaron Mon, 26 May 2008 13:54:51 +0000 http://www.pluginaweek.org/?p=10#comment-7 @yehuda You know, that's a really interesting point about alias_method_chain. I hadn't really thought about that until I watched the Merb presentation from the Gotham Ruby Conference. It seems like, for many projects in Ruby, a well-designed interface is ignored because you can just fall back on the hacking power of Ruby to get what you need done. I really like what you guys are doing with Merb. I haven't used it yet for any personal projects, but it's definitely under the radar! @yehuda You know, that’s a really interesting point about alias_method_chain. I hadn’t really thought about that until I watched the Merb presentation from the Gotham Ruby Conference. It seems like, for many projects in Ruby, a well-designed interface is ignored because you can just fall back on the hacking power of Ruby to get what you need done.

I really like what you guys are doing with Merb. I haven’t used it yet for any personal projects, but it’s definitely under the radar!

]]> By: Yehuda Katz http://www.pluginaweek.org/2008/05/19/a-fresh-perspective/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Yehuda Katz Thu, 22 May 2008 22:51:22 +0000 http://www.pluginaweek.org/?p=10#comment-6 @aaron Great post. Part of the trick, of course, is to write the initial framework so it's easy to extend. As you pointed out, we do that with Merb. Additionally, we consider it a bug if people feel compelled to use alias_method_chain on our code (we don't actually distribute alias_method_chain with merb, so there's a bit of a disincentive to use it). Providing perfect points of interaction is obviously not easy to get right the first time, but that's why we started over with 0.9 :) @aaron Great post. Part of the trick, of course, is to write the initial framework so it’s easy to extend. As you pointed out, we do that with Merb. Additionally, we consider it a bug if people feel compelled to use alias_method_chain on our code (we don’t actually distribute alias_method_chain with merb, so there’s a bit of a disincentive to use it).

Providing perfect points of interaction is obviously not easy to get right the first time, but that’s why we started over with 0.9 :)

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