Rails has hit that point of public adoption where we are getting the mass of tools asking for basic help that they can answer by clicking the first result of a simple google search. We all ask questions, sometimes stupid questions, but it’s part of the learning curve. There are those that ask stupid questions repeatedly, they are the ones that put a damper on the community. How do we deal with these people? Do we ignore them in #rubyonrails? Do we simply send them links to “letmegooglethatforyou (lmgtfy.com)?
It’s not even as if the questions are difficult, they generally simple. Here is a log from today:
1 2 | <BLOCKED> hi, I'm working on my first serious rails project and I'm a bit lost with the submit_tag_value helper i tried that but didn't worked <BLOCKED> <%= submit_tag value='Suivant', id="next_button" %> |
I’m speechless. It’s part of the reason I hang out in #railsbridge now, we’re all laid back and tend to generally only ask questions we haven’t found a good method of solving.
So, please, save our time, help yourself.
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