Op 13 jan 2009, om 13:17 heeft Frederik Ramm het volgende geschreven: > Martijn, > >> The goal of the talk will be to interest the (Amsterdam) Ruby >> community in OSM in general, but also in becoming involved in OSM >> Rails development. Is that helpful? > > My personal take on this is that we actually have two, very > different, kinds of "web interface", or better "http interface". > [...] The distinction between interfacing with end users (the front end) and interfacing between the database through the API with non-human clients is a useful one. I don't want to get into a discussion as to whether Ruby / Rails is the best choice for this - but at least I'm prepared for a discussion among the Ruby devs :) > > In my eyes, OSM is not a "typical Rails project", nor even a project > where Rails can demonstrate superiority to anything else. In parts, > OSM is even a "we're Rails here but it's really not optimal" project.
I don't think it needs to be, at least not for knowledgable Ruby professionals. It might be interesting for them to see Ruby on rails used in a non-typical use case. Best practices are a dime a dozen I guess. Let's see. Thanks for your take on this. Martijn _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
