I agree that Rails has made many changes to it's public API and how we could all benefit from more stability [as well as the irony that in order to get this fabled stable API, we're going to break all of the previous one]. It's the language of all this that bugs me and I feel needs to change in order to communicate accurately and honestly the situation instead of relying on the old responses and accusations. Were this not being used in the public forum by "activists", I wouldn't even raise the question.
RSL On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Michael Schuerig <[email protected]>wrote: > > On Wednesday 20 May 2009, RSL wrote: > > Merb was always putting out this line about how Rails had no public > > API. I found it laughable at first because > > http://api.rubyonrails.org/ seemed to obviously refute this. However, > > recently I've noticed this same line still being trotted about, by > > "Rails" "activists" no less. Can someone give me an honest answer why > > this what seems to me to be a baldface lie is being promoted from > > within our own ranks now? > > Hold your horses. Rails having no public API is a mis-statement of a > very real shortcoming. As you point out, a public Application PI is > there indeed. What's missing is a defined interface for people extending > or otherwise hacking Rails. > > The usual approach is just to do what currently works. Consequently, > code like that is bound to break on updates to the Rails code base. A > defined interface could future-proof such code. > > It's unfortunate that the term API is used in this context as that's not > what the problem is about. An SPI (Service PI) it is neither. I have no > suggestion for a better term. > > Michael > > -- > Michael Schuerig > mailto:[email protected] > http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" 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/rubyonrails-core?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
