[diggan]

As everything, I think a bit of balance is needed.

You're doing a quick MVP to demonstrate that your idea is working? Fuck it, just throw in dependencies for everything, just care about solving the problem you're trying to solve and proving/disproving your point.

Once you verified it, then go and kill your dependencies. But don't do it just because you want to do it. If in the end the users doesn't benefit from you optimizing your dependencies, why do it? (Speaking from a product side rather than a OSS project used by other projects)

Not sure KILL ALL DEPENDENCIES is helpful, but I'm not sure that MAKE EVERYTHING A DEPENDENCY is helpful either so...

[st3v3r]

That'd be good advice if those MVPs didn't so often become the actual product themselves. If industry and management understood that these things were proof of concepts, and realized that the actual product is going to have to be rewritten, then I'd agree with you.

[badloginagain]

Ruby is great for prototyping, because its so easy to get things up and running.

The big thing is transitioning to any kind of final production code. The rules for clean code apply as much for Ruby as it does for any other language.

But its a good post, it can easily be something you overlook, due to gems being so damn convenient.

[rhapsodyv]

Perfect. Get things done fast. Prove your product. If it succeed, you will have time to tune every aspect and invent your own wheel that fit your needs. But until that, RAM is a lot cheaper than your own time writing from scratch your version of things that are very stable and largely used.

But, the advice is really important for gem writters. As a gem author, I think you really need think a little more about our dependencies as you do with our public interface.

[fixermark]

s/kill/understand, which is useful advice for software engineering in general.

As time approaches infinity, the number of magic "I use this package and it does something in my code, and then it all just works" dependencies you pull in should approach 0.