Enough rails for me

That's it, I've had enough of Ruby on Rails!

I like the rails part, it's a very clever approach, but I really dislike the Ruby part!

The final straw occurred yesterday. It's very common in OOP to have the constructor set default values for your object just in case the consumer of your class does not set them. In C# I would do something like this.....

public class Post : MyBaseClass
{
private bool isPost = true;
}

In Ruby I was trying to achieve this simple behaviour...

01: IsPost is set to true
02: A form is displayed with the default value
03: User changes the value
04: My Post instance is updated with the values from the form

I tried to override Initialize() only.

def Initialize
super
is_post = true
end

Now Post.new(params[:post]) is not reachable for some reason.


So in my Post class I did this

def Initialize(* params)
super(params)
is_post = true
end

The problem here is when I try to initialize the values from the form in my controller class.

post = Post.new(params[:post])

This means that the super(params) is called (which sets is_post to the value in the form) and then sets is_post = true. So my value is always true regardless of what the user enters.

So I tried putting "is_post = true" before the call to super, but that throws a null reference exception.

Finally someone told me to merge hashes like this

{:is_post => true}.merge(params);
super(params)

I don't recall the error, but that didn't work either.


I'm sorry, but ANY language that gives me this much hassle just to set a default is not worth it.

C# on rails, now *that* would be nice!