Good point Peter! On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Peter Hickman < peterhickman...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Unless you have some very specific issues that are not addressed by > the likes of devise then to be honest I would say you are wasting your > time writing your own. As an exercise I can understand, I've done it > myself. But the problem is that you start with just a simple sign on > system, then you need to add twitter or facebook sign on but your ego > will be too big to allow you to throw away all this hard work you have > put into the masterpiece of your loins so you add that feature, and > the next and the next and the next... Finally you will have an > abomination. > > Also having experience of things like devise will look good on your > CV, having written your own will only receive the response of "why did > you do that when there are several perfectly good tried and tested > gems that will do it for you?" > > Just out of curiosity have you also written your own > > *) xml parser? > *) json parser? > *) database drivers? > *) orm? > *) templating system? > *) web framework? > *) date and time class? > > I mean how can you trust those gems that suddenly work just by > installing them :) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
