Michael Pavling wrote: > On 13 August 2010 17:05, Marnen Laibow-Koser <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Rails is a Web framework. �Word and Excel documents have no place on the >> Web -- they do not work well as interchange formats or play nicely with >> Web browsers. �Do not design your Web applications in such a way that >> Word and Excel documents are generated -- that's just irresponsible. > > Tsch! > > Rails is a Ruby framework - and it can be used to make web > applications, or non-web intranet applications,
An Intranet app is still a Web application by my definition. It works over HTTP and is viewed through a client's Web browser. It works the same way as a public Web application. Whether it can be seen by people outside the company or not is irrelevant in this regard. > or a mix of whatever a > client asks. > If a client asks to produce the functionality to export data into the > office-application format of their choice, then it's not irresponsible > to do exactly that. Yes it is. If a client asks me that, then it is my responsibility as an ethical, responsible developer to tell them that IMHO they are making a suboptimal choice, and to explore other alternatives with them. The client gets to dictate business needs, not technical implementation. > (at a preference, I output PDFs and CSVs, but if I *had* to make a > Word doc - and I can imagine situations it would be asked for - then > so be it) For me, no way, unless there were some *external* requirement (say, interfacing with a third-party system that the client had no control over, and that only accepted Word files). I won't do something that I know to be wrong. 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.
