2008/11/16 DAddYE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Or if they never build a blog or a website / smallcms is possible to > make a good app, so people in this way have a good starting point for > learn.
I agree with all said here but don't expect 10 more Merb blogs at github tomorrow. Simply because to put something online you have to make it more or less sane. This is how open source can be used: to judge skills (or level of laziness) of other people. > For example, the default orm, datamapper can be good, but how use It? > Is (my opinion) poor documented, and for my society, I've a lot of > trouble using It, simply because, I don't know It and I don't know If > any big society use it. You probably mean community, not society. I am going off topic here a bit but this question is something I never skip. The answer is, *read the code*. The only way to not depend on documentation writers, developers, version mismatches and so forth is to read the code of what you use. Not only it would make you 100 times more efficient with your tools, it is the only way to not depend on others. Core teams and contributors come and go, your applications should not depend too much on it. So given Merb and DM is mostly easy to understand and it's in Ruby, a very readable language, read the code from time to time, and you'll never care about number of tutorials, open sourced applications, typos and mistakes in the wiki, damn-slapp-tutorial-being-constantly-out-of-date, you name your documentation issue. Source is there, it never lies, it's extremely high level language and it's written with idea of NOT using meta programming for meta programming's sake (some call it "beautiful code') and smartpants tricks as much as possible. I don't remember who and when made me think about topic but I definitely feel thankful to that person. I learned 1000 times more from the source of projects like Merb, DataMapper, MooTools, Mercurial, Twisted and Git than from all Ruby, Python, C and JavaScript books & documentation chapters I have read (a bunch). So read the source. or you'll be bitching about "that core team that never writes docs" for the rest of your life, no matter what you use. -- MK --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "merb" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/merb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
