Hi, I've just found this link to a post by the Ruby on Rails creator:
http://www.loudthinking.com/arc/000533.html There are some interesting point he makes that made me think: 1) Structure generation done right (as RoR does) it's quite useful not only as a quickstart but (probably) even more to support the development process step by step by ensuring you are doing the right thing without wasting time (even if you are already expert). Quoting the post: "Structure generation drastically lowers the learning curve by teaching the conventions through code instead of documentation." 2) Form generation from the controller it's pretty nice, but doesn't this break the MVC paradigm? For example, suppose that I'm working with a designer and I want to work only on the Model and Controller side, now I've got this template that contains: ${form.insert(action=save)} how can my designer customize it? I can give him the TableForm.template output and let him customize that, but: - He won't be able to work with the kid template and take advantage of the ability to completely view it in its browser (one selling point of Kid) - I will need to integrate its work (on the View side) inside of my controllers (the C side) by subclassing the TableForm class and overriding the template with the customized one (more unwanted work for me) - Probably I will need to do the same for some of the widgets... With code generation I will only need to give him the generated Kid template. Yes, if you change something on your model you will need to regenerate the template, but how does this compare to the customization and adaptation work needed by the other solution? with the View side appearing on my Controller side? And what about the learning curve needed to teach yourself the right way to do the customization work (subclassing vs plain editing of HTML). Maybe the simplest solution it's also the right one? I don't want to start a flame, I'm only interest on hearing others people opinions, it's important to get it right and make it easy if TG wants to succeed. Please excuse me for my bad english, it's not my native language and I took me a while to write this down, also excuse me if I will not reply often but I'm preparing some important exams :-( Ciao Michele
