Jeff Pritchard wrote: [...] > Thanks Steve, this is useful and interesting info.
If you'd like another data point, I completely agree with Steve. Haml is wonderful, and Sass is to ny knowledge the *only* tool that makes it feasible to make CSS truly semantic and free of presentation classes. I can't imagine doing without them again. > > Just to clarify, my "side to side" analogy was intended to convey that > some new tools did nothing to improve the Rails toolset -- some new > tools moved app development sideways rather than forward. There have > been plenty of "best thing since sliced bread" new ways to do things > with Rails that have turned out to be just a distraction and which, in > my view, were not an improvement over the "old way", and which have > since faded away (apparently others agreed). There's always some of that in any evolving technology. > Sadly, some of those > "bright ideas" were adopted by the Rails team, so we're stuck with those > (like REST). REST is a big step forward, so this is probably an inapt example... > > Thanks for the info on HAML and Compass > jp Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org [email protected] -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
