Community Quote by Martin Fowler

“It is impossible not to notice Ruby on Rails. It has had a huge effect both in and outside the Ruby community... Rails has become a standard to which even well-established tools are comparing themselves to.”

Martin Fowler

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (10 ratings)

Community Compare Effects Huge Impossible Rail Rubies Standards Tools Wells

More by Martin Fowler

When you actually sit down to write some code, you learn things that you didn't get from thinking about them in modeling terms...there is…

Martin Fowler

Image

Comprehensiveness is the enemy of comprehensibility.

Martin Fowler

Image

I've learned to always avoid saying "always"

Martin Fowler

Image

The biggest issue on software teams is making sure everyone understands what everyone else is doing.

Martin Fowler

Image

Why is composing symphonies tough? I don't know. It's just very few people in the world can do it well. And I think that's…

Martin Fowler

Image

I find that writing unit tests actually increases my programming speed

Martin Fowler

Image

So I hope I’ve made clear that imposing agile methods is a very red flag.

Martin Fowler

Image

“... parts of classic MVC don't really make sense for rich clients these days.”

Martin Fowler

Image

In almost all cases, I’m opposed to setting aside time for refactoring. In my view refactoring is not an activity you set aside time…

Martin Fowler

Image

Now I'm a pretty lazy person and am prepared to work quite hard in order to avoid work.

Martin Fowler

Image

One of the things I've been trying to do is look for simpler or rules underpinning good or bad design. I think one of…

Martin Fowler

Image

Continuous Integration is a software development practice where members of a team integrate their work frequently, usually each person integrates at least daily -…

Martin Fowler

Image

Explore all 25 Martin Fowler quotes

More Community quotes

Race is the idea that a human being is more superior than another human being, race in society grants illusional rights to mistreat each…

Jeremy Limn

Image

But we are convinced that if we are to play a meaningful role nationally, and in the community of nations, we must be second…

Vikram Sarabhai

Image

In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It gives you…

Rose Ayling-Ellis

Image

The strains and stresses suffered by the individual in society are grounded in the normal functioning of that society (and of the individual!) rather…

Herbert Marcuse

Image

Hackney gets a bit of a bad rap, but it's the only place I've ever lived that felt like a community. I know my…

Sharon Horgan

Image

The social [media channel] isn't about beauty contests and popularity contests. They're a distortion, a caricature of the real thing. It's about trust, connection,…

Umair Haque