On Thursday, 15 November 2012 14:00:42 UTC-5, Tony Thompson wrote: > > Hello - > > I would like to get involved in the Rails Core development. What's the > process for getting involved? > > We've been working with Rails since 2006 and really enjoy the framework > but have some reservations around Rails 3's REST implementation and exposed > Java Script. The former seems to be an over reach for a framework and is an > application specific architectural decision. The latter takes something > that should be handled by the framework (wrapped and tested) and exposes > it. Migrating one project, both have made working with the framework > slower, more cumbersome and overly complex. > > I'm not sure what you mean by "REST implementation". Sure, there's some syntactic sugar available if you're using the idiomatic approach - but there's nothing stopping you from ignoring all that and doing things manually. From what I recall, that sugar isn't even new (dating back to early Rails 2)...
Even less clear on "exposed Javascript" - is that an issue with the asset pipeline, with the Rails UJS helpers, or something else? We have 10's of thousands of line applications that eventually need to be > upgraded. We need to make and bake some core changes to make this possible. > This should not effect the current Rails implementation but enable simple, > direct migrations and make the framework more flexible for new projects. > I'm fairly certain in our case it's quicker (and safer) to make these > changes to Rails proper than to rewrite our apps. Since I'm positive we're > not alone on this front, we would like to share that work. > rails-core is definitely the place to bring issues like this up, but I don't think you'll get much traction if you want to introduce any changes that break existing applications. You may be better off starting with a gem that changes the offending behaviors that you can include into your applications to smooth the migration process. --Matt Jones -- 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 [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rubyonrails-talk/-/sqOKyKr3OEkJ. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
