Frustration
Have you ever been stuck 10 - 20 miles out in the middle of nowwhere with a broken down car? Gas looks fine, temp. is fine. The engine turns but just not quite enough to start. You’re faced with a question. Walk the 20 miles which you know will get you where you’re going, or tinker with the car,which if you can get it working will get you there a whole lot faster.
That’s my experience with cake today. I’m still commited to using it. I’d like to help the community succeed, but the lack of significant documentation is crippling. Cake is great for the exact tasks that the tutorials outline, but after that it gets sketchy.
I’m working on a HasAndBelongsToMany (HABTM) article to try to explain how it works. It seems to only work when it wants to, and due to lack of documentation I can’t figure out when that is. I can’t find anything significant online at the moment, so I’ll be delving in to the code but if anyone would like to help or point a resource my way it’d be appreciated.
Thanks.
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