On 05/11/2008, at 01:37 , Steven Baker wrote:
Big difference between "haven't been able to" and "wouldn't learn the tools". Ashley's post below sums it up best. This is a problem that's seen regularly when working with new ideas. How many times have you seen Agile blamed when a project fails due to poor management? I personally see this all the time.
Personally, the first question on my mind was why they weren't using separate environments for each of their production applications.
I'm learning Django at the moment, which is kinda like a Python-on- Rails wannabe. The most useful tool I've come across recently has been "virtualenv" which basically takes your system-installed environment, copies it (including the specific version of the Python interpreter) into a stand-alone environment, then sets the path for Python libraries appropriately. Then when you go messing with the environment (adding new third-party software) it only affects that specific virtual environment.
A similar thing in the Mac OS X world of Ruby on Rails programming is Locomotive. I love Locomotive.
I can't understand why people who are serious about production environment stability would install multiple applications in the same environment. It's not healthy.
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