Chris Mear wrote: > On 7 August 2010 19:54, Brad Lindsay <brad.lind...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I'm new to Ruby and to Rails, but have been very impressed by the >> tutorials I've gone through for each. They have convinced me that >> these are the best tools for the solutions I need to create, but >> before I really got started, I thought I'd query the wisdom of this >> list. > > Always good to hear someone excited about Rails! > > One bit of 'wisdom': the out-of-the-box Rails defaults are very > capable. We've all written substantial apps using bog-standard ERb and > Test::Unit, so don't feel pressured to use fashionable alternatives > just because they're fashionable.
At the same time, don't get wedded to the defaults just because they're the defaults. I hope I never again have to use Rails' standard test framework for new development -- the Test::Unit API is crap, and fixtures are somewhere between moronic and dangerous. The Rails team broke some great new ground with the testing framework, but like all pioneers, they made some big mistakes. Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org mar...@marnen.org -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- 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-t...@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.
