Isshen, LLC

I just cracked open a Rails Bug Tracker. The screenshots look good, and the project looks mature. I've been shopping for a native Rails bug tracker for use with our company, Isshen, LLC. This project looks like something I can quickly install and start using, despite its status as "Beta" on Rubyforge.

Suspicion first filled me when I saw that the project had a "Win32 source" download. That does not make any sense. A Rails app is fairly OS-agnostic. The download is distributed in a zip file. When opened, the source itself is packaged as a RAR. And there was a database.sql schema.

The schema was bad. It looked like something I would have written before I encountered Rails. There were three migration scripts in the Rails source. There was one that says "create_object". Huh?

Curious, I opened up app/model. No dice. There were three models ... and a file called mysqlconnection.rb. Why would a Rails app need that for? I got real suspicious.

And this suspicion was confirmed when I looked at the controllers. Each controller action would create a new mysqlconnection, generate the SQL query on the fly, and then render the template.

Essentially, the Rails Bug Tracker is a superficial port of a PHP program. And that PHP program wasn't even written using MVC architecture.

Wow.