Just A Summary : Today's noun is: Reification

Comment on Today's noun is: Reification by Giles Bowkett

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:52:00 -0500

Have you submitted this to Rails as a patch? There’s actually a ton of tiny repetitions in Rails, cleaning it up is a very very worthy goal. It’s getting to the point where it’s a pretty large code base.

Comment on Today's noun is: Reification by Piers Cawley

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 18:12:02 -0500

I haven’t, no. I have some fairly serious differences of opinion with the Rails code base – I think every bug I’ve reported on the trac (admittedly not many) has been resolved as ‘wontfix’ with commentary that leads me to believe that me and the chaps in the core team are thinking at right angles. Which makes me somewhat hesitant to go submitting a patch that adds no new features and won’t have any new tests associated with it.

Still, there’s always the next patch I guess.

Comment on Today's noun is: Reification by Piers Cawley

Fri, 24 Aug 2007 07:46:08 -0500

All that said, I’m very close to having a patch ready to post to the trac which does the refactoring sketched in the article.

Comment on Today's noun is: Reification by Yossef

Sat, 25 Aug 2007 22:11:16 -0500

I’m not sure what the core team is thinking much of the time, and I’ve had plenty to say about it (though not always very publicly). It’s not that I don’t appreciate the effort, but when I see some of the code connected to ‘david’, ‘rick’, or ‘bitsweat’, I wonder. I know it’s not all produced by them, but they are the ones who committed it.

That’s not the point, anyway. The real reason I wanted to leave a comment is because my father once called me up to ask what ‘reify’ meant and my initial reaction was ‘to make royal’.