A forum is not as effective as mailing lists for people like me.
Usually you will only access a forum for asking questions and not to
reply to them. This also makes it less likely that your question will be
answered.
In a mailing list you'll see all messages that comes through them.
Eventually you'll see a question that you're able to reply even though
your main interest in the list is making questions instead of answering
them.
I have searched for "engine" in the Rails-talk list and I found that
that list is probably not very effective for such subject:
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!searchin/rubyonrails-talk/engine/rubyonrails-talk/PqCTofRUSrM/ZXmbOmB_368J
<https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#%21searchin/rubyonrails-talk/engine/rubyonrails-talk/PqCTofRUSrM/ZXmbOmB_368J>
( app-prefix for tasks defined in an engine?! - no answers)
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!searchin/rubyonrails-talk/engine/rubyonrails-talk/XvrZOOcsmD8/6sAQjLWB1QcJ
<https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#%21searchin/rubyonrails-talk/engine/rubyonrails-talk/XvrZOOcsmD8/6sAQjLWB1QcJ>
(self replied)
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!searchin/rubyonrails-talk/engine/rubyonrails-talk/OkE9zq5APVQ/6IgaWmZIirUJ
<https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#%21searchin/rubyonrails-talk/engine/rubyonrails-talk/OkE9zq5APVQ/6IgaWmZIirUJ>
(same)
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!searchin/rubyonrails-talk/engine/rubyonrails-talk/iMDlv-U5Kyc/r1uvnconwlIJ
<https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#%21searchin/rubyonrails-talk/engine/rubyonrails-talk/iMDlv-U5Kyc/r1uvnconwlIJ>
(no answers)
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!searchin/rubyonrails-talk/engine/rubyonrails-talk/b_gStTqQXvA/vQNSqsF2muIJ
<https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#%21searchin/rubyonrails-talk/engine/rubyonrails-talk/b_gStTqQXvA/vQNSqsF2muIJ>
(no answers)
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!searchin/rubyonrails-talk/engine/rubyonrails-talk/1IofgiCKbUQ/69eaQeOGvG8J
<https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#%21searchin/rubyonrails-talk/engine/rubyonrails-talk/1IofgiCKbUQ/69eaQeOGvG8J>
(no answers)
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!searchin/rubyonrails-talk/engine/rubyonrails-talk/5T0g8ADL_4w/4BgZItDw260J
<https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#%21searchin/rubyonrails-talk/engine/rubyonrails-talk/5T0g8ADL_4w/4BgZItDw260J>
(no answers)
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!searchin/rubyonrails-talk/engine/rubyonrails-talk/K6cgyimLb5Y/2YlNZPsPFM4J
<https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#%21searchin/rubyonrails-talk/engine/rubyonrails-talk/K6cgyimLb5Y/2YlNZPsPFM4J>
(no answers)
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!searchin/rubyonrails-talk/engine/rubyonrails-talk/JpLBcLhu2PA/p4-xpg6iC2cJ
<https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#%21searchin/rubyonrails-talk/engine/rubyonrails-talk/JpLBcLhu2PA/p4-xpg6iC2cJ>
(no answers)
This is pretty typical in Rails-talk and I'd say this would represent
about 80% of the top results for "engine" search in that group.
And there is a lot of regular questions like database modeling,
validations, etc there too.
I still think that a focused mailing list on Engines or more advanced
stuff could be interesting for dealing with experienced Rails developers.
You will also find by looking at that group that the people that are
most likely to be the ones that know best the answers are not subscribed
to rails-talk but to rails-core only.
Lots of them don't even seem to be subscribed to rails-core even and I'd
suspect the core members have a separate mailing list or other means of
communicating between themselves.
That is why I think a focused general questions list about advanced
subjects could be interesting.
I hope you understand what I mean.
Cheers,
Rodrigo.
Em 22-07-2012 20:32, Ryan Bigg escreveu:
All this talk of categorization sounds almost like there should be
some kind of Rails forum for discussing things in, rather than
isolated mailing lists.
There's an engine for that. https://github.com/radar/forem
On Sunday, 22 July 2012 at 5:36 AM, Luís Ferreira wrote:
Yes, but engines kinda sucked before 3.1. Now a lot more people are
using them.
+1 for the list.
On Jul 21, 2012, at 2:29 AM, Andrew Kaspick wrote:
Here's a past one...
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
dead!
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 8:28 PM, Ryan Bigg <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
rails-talk is a ghetto.
A new engines list would be best.
On Saturday, 21 July 2012 at 11:27 AM, Andrew Kaspick wrote:
Engine lists have been created in the past, but they're not very
active or are dead.
-1 to a new engine list and +1 to just asking the questions in
rails-talk first
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 7:41 PM, TuteC <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
+1
Agree that a Rails engine is in the frontier between custom app code
and Rails architecture, yet a client (and not core) of Rails.
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> It is not always clear whether we should use Rails-talk or
Rails-core list.
>
> In the same way we have a list for Rails documentation and we
had one for
> i18n, would you consider a new list oriented to Engine/Plugins
developers?
>
> This would be a list we could subscribe for engine-related
questions that
> would't have a very big traffic like the Rails-talk one and I
think such a
> list could be pretty useful for gem authors.
>
> Would that be wanted?
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