Comments on: Refactoring, Rails, and “Coding Ruby Correctly”

By: Java Developer

Java Developer — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Man, you are brave, I do believe most people no matter where they come from (either from Static Type Land or from the Dynamic Type Land), they all face this problem at some point, but people just never admit it, it’s like “the king with shining new cloth”. they just don’t want to face that, instead they just blame the one who stand up.

By: Shadowfiend

Shadowfiend — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

It’s funny how all of those points were made in one or two comments

By: Jason Carreira

Jason Carreira — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

The problem you’re running into is that the Ruby people commenting have likely never worked on really big systems. Large codebases have problems all their own and require good tools to have half a chance of keeping them maintainable. Java has those tools thanks to Intellij (and the people who have copied them). RoR doesn’t have those tools, and the dynamic nature of Ruby is at least partly to blame.

By: anjan bacchu

anjan bacchu — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

hi there,

This would be a good time for someone like Kent Beck or Ward Cunningham to get into the picture with a new Refactoring tool for Ruby/Python.

A good percentage of developers understand refactoring and the market seems to want it.

BR,
~A

By: Stephan Schmidt

Stephan Schmidt — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

@Shadowfiend:

Not in mine!

@Jason:

Java has those tools with IntelliJ, Findbugs, CheckStyle, PMD, JDepend and several others which help you dealing with complexity.

Peace
-stephan