Comments on: Rails 1.2.1 Impression

By: Mocha - Push cx

Mocha - Push cx — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 01:58:24 +0000

[...] now a big fan of Mocha like I am of Rails. Ruby has a way of allowing coders to write magically polished libraries. « Simple Ruby [...]

By: Human-Readable ActiveResource URLs - Push cx

Human-Readable ActiveResource URLs - Push cx — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 23:15:24 +0000

[...] I’ve got URLs on the brain this week. I started NearbyGamers using Rails 1.1 with just gamers and tags. I upgraded to Rails 1.2 (and liked it) , and added discussions after I updated to Rails 1.2. I was able to use ActiveResource for Discussions with Posts as a nested resource. I’m really happy with this code, as it’s very tidy. [...]

By: SOB: Scion Of Backronymics » The Ruby Experience

SOB: Scion Of Backronymics » The Ruby Experience — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 11:39:03 +0000

[...] Well, this first impression of Rails 1.2.1 illustrates something essential to that community and language policy of the Ruby language, something I like about it. Specifically, this bit caught my attention: I’ve mentioned that this is what coding in Rails continually feels like: sometimes it just feels off even though it works and is nicer than other languages, and soon I realize a beautiful Right Way to do it. [...]

By: Peter Harkins

Peter Harkins — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 05:06:54 +0000

It's not just that it's terse that I like it, it's also because it's based on the syntax for CSS selectors. I looked at it and immediately understood it, it's less to learn.

By: Michael Silver

Michael Silver — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 04:36:31 +0000

I am new to Ruby and Rails and enjoying learning them. Perhaps I haven’t been at it long enough, but to me:

assert_select “div#notice > div”, text

is harder to read and understand than the example with assert_tag. It reminds me of perl, which while a terse language is difficult to maintain.

Perhaps I just don’t have enough experience under my belt to understand while clarity with wordiness is worse than terse and hard to understand and perhaps it’s just preference.

…Michael…