On Aug 20, 2:24 am, JGoodrich <[email protected]> wrote: > So, I abhor using 3rd party API's personally, as it creates extra > dependencies *and* extra possible points of failure for our business.
Whereas rolling your own takes much more development time and -- often -- doesn't work as well. There's certainly a tradeoff involved, but I'm not sure that an "abhorrence" of 3rd-party APIs is always reasonable. (I would *not* want to write my own JavaScript mapping service...) My one experience with building a chat application didn't go that well (that was with PHP, Fusebox, and Mootools, not Rails). It's a lot harder than it looks... Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org [email protected] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
