Ruby on Rails

Hi Michael,

I just wrote a lot to reply but eventually decided to simply say:
Thanks very much! I think I get your point.

Sean

On Feb 26, 4:41 pm, Michael Pavling <pavl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 26 February 2011 01:51, Weichao Liu <weichao...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Colin Law <clan...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> >> On 25 February 2011 12:47, Sean W. Liu <weichao...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > Hi fellows,
>
> >> > I'm starting a small company developing a SNS website and we are using
> >> > RoR. The concern we have right now is that we don't want each of our
> >> > developers get the entire Rails code base of our project.
>
> How would you expect the developers to be able to *run* the Rails
> application to develop for it, if they don't have the code?
>
> >> Employ reputable contractors (I presume it is contractors that you are
> >> talking about) and get them to sign non-disclosure agreements.
>
> I agree wholeheartedly. And as a flip side, as a contractor, I would
> be highly suspicious of any employer who wanted to start a
> relationship by being so suspicious of me that that want to
> micro-manage the sections of code I have access to.
> Remember Sean, Rails is a nice open OO framework - unless one has
> access to jump around and refactor chunks of it, it's not going to be
> easy to work with.
>
> > In my experience, it's not really a good idea to allow every employee to get
> > the whole project code repository.
>
> Really? can you explain how you went about it before, please. What
> technologies made this possible? What languages and development
> methodologies were you using?
>
> > Signing an NDA can obviously show the company's intetion about IP
> > protection. But sometimes it can be either difficult to prove if someone
> > leaks our code, or exhoustive for a small company to deal with such law
> > suits.
>
> Again.. as pointed out, if you hire people who are happy to work in
> such a restrictive environment, you're likely to end up with code
> that's not worth stealing (or protecting) in the first place :-/

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