A maintain (and created) a few websites for local businesses. Currently they run on PHP and MySQL. I want to switch them over to Ruby on Rails and MySQL. Part of the reasoning is it is easier for me to maintain. Another part is that it harder for them to replace me. Not many people know Ruby on Rails. Do you find this to be ethical dilemma? I would tell them of the switch. I just don't want to inform them of my second reason for the switch.
I always want to write code that is easy to maintain if I can, even if that does mean they can replace me. I don't hoard information, if someone asks me something I always try to give them the full answer.
Finding someone who can do anything with it might be much more expensive right now. So that results in me keeping my jobs. And by obfuscating code I meant writing code that folks don't understand (since most are unknowing about RoR). I'm not intentionally naming variables weird shit.
off the time to roll out a database driven site. It is really awesome. I made a app with RoR that used less then 90 lines of code. Same thing with PHP used about 400.
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