This post prompted me to open up the first web app I ever wrote - a Rails 1.something app that was eventually upgraded to 2.something. It was pretty awful.
But as I went back to look at it, I found it wasn't unintelligible. It was just noobish. Lots of silly working around things that do not need to be worked around - that sort of thing. My models are mostly empty, if that tells you anything.
It's a testament to the Rails structure and convention that someone with no experience and a book can write something that not only works, but is reasonably readable despite being totally wrong.
As a side note, I made several thousand dollars off that app before shuttering it. Had it worked (the idea), I no doubt would have done some major rewriting. But it didn't so now I sit here looking at the fattest controllers known to man.
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This post prompted me to open up the first web app I ever wrote - a Rails 1.something app that was eventually upgraded to 2.something. It was pretty awful.
But as I went back to look at it, I found it wasn't unintelligible. It was just noobish. Lots of silly working around things that do not need to be worked around - that sort of thing. My models are mostly empty, if that tells you anything.
It's a testament to the Rails structure and convention that someone with no experience and a book can write something that not only works, but is reasonably readable despite being totally wrong.
As a side note, I made several thousand dollars off that app before shuttering it. Had it worked (the idea), I no doubt would have done some major rewriting. But it didn't so now I sit here looking at the fattest controllers known to man.