On 26 February 2011 01:51, Weichao Liu <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Colin Law <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 25 February 2011 12:47, Sean W. Liu <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hi fellows, >> > >> > I'm starting a small company developing a SNS website and we are using >> > RoR. The concern we have right now is that we don't want each of our >> > developers get the entire Rails code base of our project.
How would you expect the developers to be able to *run* the Rails application to develop for it, if they don't have the code? >> Employ reputable contractors (I presume it is contractors that you are >> talking about) and get them to sign non-disclosure agreements. I agree wholeheartedly. And as a flip side, as a contractor, I would be highly suspicious of any employer who wanted to start a relationship by being so suspicious of me that that want to micro-manage the sections of code I have access to. Remember Sean, Rails is a nice open OO framework - unless one has access to jump around and refactor chunks of it, it's not going to be easy to work with. > In my experience, it's not really a good idea to allow every employee to get > the whole project code repository. Really? can you explain how you went about it before, please. What technologies made this possible? What languages and development methodologies were you using? > Signing an NDA can obviously show the company's intetion about IP > protection. But sometimes it can be either difficult to prove if someone > leaks our code, or exhoustive for a small company to deal with such law > suits. Again.. as pointed out, if you hire people who are happy to work in such a restrictive environment, you're likely to end up with code that's not worth stealing (or protecting) in the first place :-/ -- 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.
