[ALUG] This is the ultimate in "object oriented" programming????

Sun Dec 31 17:11:23 GMT 2006

So I have been playing a little with Ruby on Rails.  I have it up and
running and it works in a way but I'm totally unconvinced that it's
the answer to the ultimate question - or even the answer to writing
database apps for the web.

Here's one little bit of code from a *very simple* tutorial example:-

    <html>
      <head>
        <title>My todo list</title>
      </head>

      <body>
        Not done:<br />
        <%= display_items(@not_done) %>

        <p>
        <hr size=3>
        <p>

        Done:<br />
        <%= display_items(@done) %>

        <hr size=3>
        <form method="post" action="add_item">
          New item:
          <%= text_field("new_item", "description") %>
          <input type="submit" value="Add item">
        </form>

      </body>
    </html>

If that's either structured or object oriented then I'm a purple
hippopotamus!  :-)

I think the fundamental problem is that HTML is a mess, until such
time as that can be hidden somehow then I think we're stuck with
rubbish like the above.

I was hoping that Ruby on Rails helped hide some of the above junk but
apparently not.

Sorry - just felt like a bit of a rant!  :-)

-- 
Chris Green (chris at halon.org.uk)