Re: Ruby On Rails on the iSeries

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: Jerome Hughes
>
> Rails knows about English pluralization, so it can handle things like
> this. Not sure if this extends to octopus/octopi, but if you have a
> list of octopi, it probably ought be abstracted to a higher level and
> called animals with a type of octopus so you'll be able to widen your
> scope later. ;D

You say this lightly, but the truth is YOU DON'T KNOW.  And nor could anyone
possibly know.  And there are LOTS of English words that don't follow
standard pluralization and so there ought to be a way to know (and I'll risk
being accused of slagging again by mentioning the well known fact that the
documentation for RoR stinks).

It's a small issue but one that illustrates the dark side of programming by
convention.  Is it a big deal?  Probably not.  But dismissing the issue is
hardly the way to handle it.


> > And please, remember, I am NOT downing RoR.
>
> *cough* *cough* what? male bovine excrement.

<LOL!> Even though I've gone out of my way to say that I think RoR is a
great tool, because I also have some negative points about it, I'm
"slagging" it.
 
I never learn...

Joe