Greg Donald wrote in post #972952: > On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Marnen Laibow-Koser > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Not necessarily true. *You* didn't have to write the 1000 lines, and >> you didn't have to write the extra 10 lines. Where's the downside? > > Writing 10 lines of code takes a couple minutes,
And installing a gem takes 30 seconds. (In this case, I'd probably write the 10 lines, but not if the numbers were a little different.) > depending on a gem is > forever. No it's not, unless your tests are that bad. 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.
