The reason why Rails is so easy to work with (in practice), is because the framework's source code is so complicated and intense. Or else the end-programmer would be required to a lot more themselves.
On Wednesday, September 16, 2015 at 12:46:23 PM UTC-4, Elizabeth McGurty wrote: > > AMEN! > > Colin writes: "Rails core code is not the easiest code to get to grips > with." > > What an understatement! I am actually an advanced mathematician with that > training in precedence and exception and for years I have worked with ROR > -- in its history of versions. I'll write with considerable confidence > that it is extremely difficult to learn the nuance of ROR. (Watch > Railscasts, and you want to abandon your profession. How/where does Ryan > Bates learn this nuance?) I see 'authoritative" code examples here and I > have no idea from whence they originated. As a starting point the > documentation needs to be improved. Just as an obvious example, such > frequent questions here are related to table/model associations. > > Liz > > On Wednesday, September 16, 2015 at 10:30:50 AM UTC-4, Colin Law wrote: >> >> On 16 September 2015 at 14:15, Chirag Aggarwal <chi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Hi, I want to contribute in Ruby on Rails. Could someone point me to a >> > beginner bug? >> >> Do you mean you want to contribute to the development of Rails itself? >> If so then I suggest you first register with the rubyonrails-core >> list [1] and hang around there for a while to get a feel for things. >> Also (and perhaps easier) you could have a look at the open issues on >> any of the gems that you regularly use (devise perhaps, whatever gems >> you use) and try and fix them. Rails core code is not the easiest >> code to get to grips with. >> >> Colin >> >> [1] http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core. >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/0abf7f15-a1f3-4573-b519-3766002b662b%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
