Comments for Strasslab http://blog.strasslab.net Incubateur d'idées et discussions IT Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:20:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on The list of gems I work with… And a little bit of gem history by Nicolas Blanco (@slainer68) http://blog.strasslab.net/2012/02/03/the-list-of-gems-i-work-with-and-a-little-bit-of-gem-history/#comment-101 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:20:57 +0000 http://blog.strasslab.net/?p=668#comment-101 Hey,

I prefer Carrierwave than Paperclip. I really don’t like to call a method with a big options hash in my models. I feel than creating a nice class which can be easily extended is so much cleaner…

I used to like dragonfly but you lose its main advantage when storing your files on S3 or Rackspace Cloud and want to link directly.

will_paginate or kaminari? I had to integrate a custom and weird pagination markup in one project and with kaminari you can create your own themes just by editing some partials..! that was so much easier than creating a custom Paginator in Ruby using WillPaginate…

]]> Comment on The list of gems I work with… And a little bit of gem history by yannski http://blog.strasslab.net/2012/02/03/the-list-of-gems-i-work-with-and-a-little-bit-of-gem-history/#comment-100 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:45:29 +0000 http://blog.strasslab.net/?p=668#comment-100 Well, that was the point of this blog post : sharing some knowledge about what currently works well for us. And finally you’ll see that there isn’t a “lot” of alternatives.

]]> Comment on The list of gems I work with… And a little bit of gem history by yannski http://blog.strasslab.net/2012/02/03/the-list-of-gems-i-work-with-and-a-little-bit-of-gem-history/#comment-99 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:43:22 +0000 http://blog.strasslab.net/?p=668#comment-99 Thanks, will check ninja-deploy. It seems to share common goals with production_chain.

]]> Comment on The list of gems I work with… And a little bit of gem history by Nils Jonsson http://blog.strasslab.net/2012/02/03/the-list-of-gems-i-work-with-and-a-little-bit-of-gem-history/#comment-98 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:38:59 +0000 http://blog.strasslab.net/?p=668#comment-98 Great list.

I’ll suggest a gem to add to your deployment toolchain: Cape (http://rubygems.org/gems/cape). It allows you to mirror Rake tasks as Capistrano recipes, with recipe options, remote environment variables, and Rake task arguments integration.

My team has its own common recipes collection: http://rubygems.org/gems/ninja-deploy.

]]> Comment on The list of gems I work with… And a little bit of gem history by Christian http://blog.strasslab.net/2012/02/03/the-list-of-gems-i-work-with-and-a-little-bit-of-gem-history/#comment-96 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:35:39 +0000 http://blog.strasslab.net/?p=668#comment-96 Good list. My comments:
rspec: too much magic. minitest is best for me.
paperclip: I’ve had many issues with file upload/image processing libraries and lost many productive hours. I roll my own now. Yes, I’ve used CarrierWave. Didn’t like it, too much magic. Will never touch another image processing library.
will_paginate: using Kaminari now. Never going to look back.
devise: too much magic and too many dependencies. Breaks often.
sprockets: Don’t like it as it is. Still rough around the edges. Needs to be simplified and made more robust.
haml: slim has a lot better syntax. Wouldn’t use HAML, use ERB only for special situations.
thinking-sphinx: mucho magic. migrated to ElasticSearch and TIre. Won’t look back.
friendly-id: too heavy for what it does. I roll my own.

My personal opinion is to use as little plugins and gems as possible, because gems tend to be complex and do a lot of magic. Plugins also force you to upgrade or migrate to the latest and greatest alternative. Ruby seems to be aging and now has the same problem Java had in 2004. Too many alternatives, of which most are broken.

]]> Comment on The list of gems I work with… And a little bit of gem history by Martin Van Aken (@martinvanaken) http://blog.strasslab.net/2012/02/03/the-list-of-gems-i-work-with-and-a-little-bit-of-gem-history/#comment-95 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:08:08 +0000 http://blog.strasslab.net/?p=668#comment-95 Nice list, some I use, some I know, some I probably should use. I like the “swiss knife”-like list : you got gems for every case, from development to deploy.

Thanks,

Martin

]]> Comment on The difficulty of organizing a TEDx event by Changer le monde avec des idées ? « Toutielicious http://blog.strasslab.net/2011/12/04/the-difficulty-of-organizing-a-tedx-event/#comment-81 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 09:17:12 +0000 http://blog.strasslab.net/?p=658#comment-81 [...] The difficulty of organizing a TEDx event de Yann Klis Partage :J'aimeJ'aime  « Previous post [...]

]]> Comment on Choisir sa technologie – en 30 secondes by yannski http://blog.strasslab.net/2011/10/20/choisir-sa-technologie-en-30-secondes/#comment-70 Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:48:42 +0000 http://blog.strasslab.net/?p=638#comment-70 J’ai préféré me concentrer sur les technologies utilisées depuis le siècle courant ;-)

]]> Comment on Choisir sa technologie – en 30 secondes by Emmanuel http://blog.strasslab.net/2011/10/20/choisir-sa-technologie-en-30-secondes/#comment-69 Wed, 16 Nov 2011 10:21:38 +0000 http://blog.strasslab.net/?p=638#comment-69 Ouf… Perl n’est pas dans la liste des exclus ;-)

]]> Comment on Choisir sa technologie – en 30 secondes by yannski http://blog.strasslab.net/2011/10/20/choisir-sa-technologie-en-30-secondes/#comment-66 Fri, 21 Oct 2011 17:10:17 +0000 http://blog.strasslab.net/?p=638#comment-66 Je crois que tu peux dire “si tu veux être sur de galérer comme un malade pour trouver des gens compétents tout court !”

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