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by mnarayan01 4466 days ago
I (more or less) agree with the sentiment expressed by "The Missing Parts of Our Knowledge of Basic Rails Features". That said, looking at your example, grouper_cant_be_full would not allow me to provide their desired functionality unless I already knew how to do it. Simply passing a symbol rather than a string there, along with a fairly short comment about what to do with it (i.e. in the controller and config/locales) would easily help people expand their knowledge. In short, you might be right in the above sentiment, but posts like these make hard for me to fault people like the author.

Edit: I should probably note that I _don't_ think you should be "required" to help out like this at all. Simply developing/sharing Rails is certainly _way_ more than I'm doing for other people. I'm just saying if you _are_ going to comment on this stuff, it would be nice if you transferred some of your greater understanding with your comments.