You hit the nail on the head to me. The important thing is that looking at the code enables you to figure out what's going on. display and action-args do "spooky" things in the background, but you can see the entry point into the haunted house. On the other hand, Rails magically handles lots of little details, sometimes with unpredictable results.
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Rich Morin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At 00:59 +0100 11/17/08, Martin Gamsjaeger wrote: > > ... I don't really like all kinds of automagic! > > Agreed. And possibly worth discussing. Why, for example, am > I happy that Merb does away with the automagic rendering of > view files, but comfortable with the way that display chooses > _how_ to render things, based on the requested MIME type? > > I think that the critical difference, to me, is Einstein's > > "spooky action at a distance" > > That is, I want there to be some indication, in the code I'm > looking at, that something is going to happen. I don't need > the details, I can find those by following the method calls, > but I want there to be some code saying "here be dragons". > > -r > -- > http://www.cfcl.com/rdm Rich Morin > http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/resume [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/weblog +1 650-873-7841 > > Technical editing and writing, programming, and web development > > > > -- Yehuda Katz Developer | Engine Yard (ph) 718.877.1325 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
