Rails getting inspiration from symfony

Posted December 4, 2007

Rails 2.0 improvements on fixtures look a lot like the standard symfony 1.0 fixtures features - apart from the many-to-many syntax. Take a look at this screencast in Railscast to see how revolutionary fixtures are in the latest Rails release.

I like looking at Rails, Django, Zend Framework and other good open-source projects to take inspiration. It doesn’t prevent me from thinking on my own, but it also prevents me from reinventing the wheel. It is nice to see that the Rails developers do the same and don’t keep on thinking that they invented the Best Thing Around.

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