On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 4:50 AM, Eloy Duran
<eloy.de.enige@gmail.com> wrote:
* Focus on design and engineering
In an age of "cowboy programming", I find it refreshing to
see that some programming projects actually embrace design
and engineering.
is that there are tests for almost everything,
which is something that is seriously lacking atm imo.
As I already discussed with Laurent, I especially would like to see
full test/spec coverage for HotCocoa, because:
(A) I think it's a good thing to do in any case, but that's just my opinion.
(B) More importantly, HotCocoa will probably be the part of MacRuby
that most rubyists will hack/contribute on. Without a full test suite
it takes too much time to make it enjoyable for people to quickly write a good patch,
because one has to trace through all the code.
To put the money where my mouth is; I have started on writing specs for HotCocoa
and will commit them once I feel it's a good enough starting point. (There's never enough time…)
I would really like to hear the opinions from the main HotCocoa committers on this.
PS: Credits to Laurent who has been making an effort on writing more and more tests for
the core part of MacRuby! :)
* large, well-documented APIs
In a community dominated by a web framework (Rails) that
has no defined API, I think this is quite noteworthy.
Serious??
I have not yet seen any well documented API in MacRuby, I must have missed it.
Could you explain which one(s) you mean?
Anyway, I started wondering whether any parts of Merb might be
useful for MacRuby to consider adopting. For example:
* Merb, like Rails, defines conventions for directory layout.
Would it make sense for MacRuby to have similar conventions?
* Merb stresses modularity very strongly, using gems to add
"plugins", "slices", etc. What kinds of modularity should
we encourage for MacRuby, HotCocoa, etc?
These will at least be covered by Rucola again, once I have ported it to MacRuby.
But because this will be quite an effort I would like to know from Laurent/Rich
if we will not be duplicating functionality.
- Eloy