On Jun 15, 2015, at 5:09 PM, Elizabeth McGurty <[email protected]> wrote: > > I think that this post raises interesting issues regarding the gathering of a > user's gender. The developer is evidently not requiring user indication of > gender, and has problems in the event of null. Perhaps that matter is > optional. If so, why didn't the developer provide an option for "User > Declines" as an example. But generally I think this matter is very > important. We exist in the 21st Century where a request for gender must be > done with sensitivity. What is the convention in this matter?
Oh please, let's not turn the simplest of bugs into a debate on gender politics. There is simply no single "convention" that will suffice for all contexts. -- Scott Ribe [email protected] http://www.elevated-dev.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottribe/ (303) 722-0567 voice -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/D65E86D4-7EF3-4C74-B213-1FE54FACDF9A%40elevated-dev.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
