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Paul Robinson

More options Jul 27 2007, 2:01 pm

From: Paul Robinson <p...@vagueware.com>

Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 19:01:52 +0100

Local: Fri, Jul 27 2007 2:01 pm

Subject: Re: [rails-business] redMine - OS - ER

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On 27 Jul 2007, at 18:31, Mustafa Ekim wrote:

> First, I also use redmine and I think it is really good. At least
> it has
> also a wiki per project, which is a must (I think)

A Wiki is about as useless as a Gantt chart unless you use it
correctly and make sure the client uses it as well, IMHO.

> A project having more than how many developers need a project
> management
> tool?

I don't think it's the number of developers that count, it's the
number of days work needed to bring the project to completion. If
there is more than one day of work involved, I think the project is
of sufficient complexity to need managing in a more structured way
than email by the developer(s) even if only one person is involved on
each side of the client/developer relationship.

> How much of rails developers use Linux as their OS?

No hard figures, but OS X has a very high uptake amongst Rails
developers compared to general OS X market penetration. I personally
think that Windows users are likely in the minority within this part
of the developer community, but I have no figures to support me in
that assertion.

> And lastly, I know I opened this discussion before but still I do not
> find any tool to draw good ER diagrams in Linux. The softwares
> mentioned
> before, like Dia, are not good enough in practice. My solution for
> today, is, unfortunately, to draw Class diagram via argoUML and act
> like
> it is an ER diagram.

Well, you've got a weekend in front of you haven't you? We look
forward to seeing what you produce! :-D

Seriously, I know what you mean. I'm on OS X so can use OmniGraffle
when I need to. Personally, I'm not sold on ER diagrams - I can quite
happily work out what is going on with nothing more than some
migrations, or schema.rb and app/models - I think ER diagrams and the
like actually slow down development.

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