And behold there were 4 plugins!
In the beginning, in the reign of the titans, there was acts_as_authenticated and there was acts_as_taggable and there was attachment_fu and there was mephisto and there was typo.
Then, out of the dark, arose the mighty restful_authentication and the esteemed acts_as_taggable_on_steroids which begat its mighty brother acts_as_taggable_on.
:but => Lo! On the 3rd year, in the reign of Queen Clarity, there came authlogic and there came paperclip and there came is_taggable and there came enki.
And behold! The puny authlogic did not use cattr_accessor in thy models and add systems to thy lib and lo the anemic enki did not spray liquid in thy views!
And behold! The puny is_taggable did not beget seven join tables in thy sql, and the effete paperclip did not make thee write 30 lines of ruby to specify thy custom file storage paths.
And behold! The new era of plugins was called magic!
And fear! The new era of plugins often required reading the source.
And rejoice! The new era of plugins had source that was readable (mostly).
And wonder! Is magic worth it?
March 03, 2009
