Re: [Rails-devel] Initial unavailability of shares

[Erik V. <eri...@hc...>]

> > I didn't find it worthwhile to invent an XML
> > structure to make all these rules configurable.
> 
> I agree -- since Java can load classes dynamically, it is 
> better to write 
> code in a real programming language than trying to extend XML to be a 
> programming language.
> 
> A long time ago I used the same approach for a Java implementation of 
> Cosmic Encounter (the cards all have arbitrary powers that 
> alter the rules 
> of the game).  New cards could be loaded by just including additional 
> jars in a directory, and the game loaded all the cards that 
> were defined 
> there.  Perhaps Rails could be structured such that support 
> for new games 
> could be delivered the same way, once the core supported all the 
> mechanisms that any of the games might need.

Yes, that is more of less my goal as well.
I regularly find myself adding more hooks to load classes dynamically.

Erik.